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Recorded at the Mises Circle in Newport Beach, California, on November 14th, 2009. Sponsored by Louis E. Carabini. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.
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[ Free Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is At Odds With Economics — And Why It Matters. By Peter A. Ubel. Harvard Business Press, 2009.Xiv + 257 pages.] Peter Ubel has written an informative and useful book, but not entirely for the reasons he thinks. He presents a very well-written and easy-to-understand account of behavioral economics; in doing
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The single most important book on the Great Depression.” – David Gordon In the present recession, advocates of government intervention often evoke the specter of the Great Depression. Unless the government intervenes massively, we are told, we risk an economic collapse comparable to that of the 1930s. To see the fallacy of this claim, it is
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[Book Review: The Post-American World . By Fareed Zakaria. Norton, 2008. 292 pages.] Fareed Zakaria poses a fundamental question. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, America has dominated the world. How long can we remain in this position? Zakaria foresees an end to our dominance, as other powers, especially China and India, continue to grow
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[Book Review: The Case for Big Government . By Jeff Madrick. Princeton University Press, 2009. 205 pages.] “Advocates of the free market will profit from the book only through analysis of its mistakes.” A book entitled The Case for Big Government has a very poor chance of obtaining favorable notice in The Mises Review . But with my usual exemplary
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[ Killing in War . By Jeff McMahan. Oxford University Press, 2009. Xii + 250 pages.] Jeff McMahan has written a genuinely revolutionary book. He has uncovered a flaw in standard just-war theory. The standard view sharply separates the morality of going to war, jus ad bellum , from the morality of warfare, jus in bello . Whether or not a war is
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[ Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics • By George Reisman • Jameson Books, 1998 • l + 1046 pages] Professor Reisman centers his enormous book on a key insight: it is capitalists themselves who run the capitalist system. As I will show, this insight enables him to bring out a vital aspect of Austrian economics, essential to a grasp of that system
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During the 1920s and 1930s, a majority of Americans came to believe that our involvement in World War I had been a horrendous mistake. The war was supposed to have made the world safe for democracy, but fascism, communism, and aggressive nationalism were the order of the day in Europe. In an effort to forestall future involvements in European
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Mises Review 15, No. 3 (Fall 2009) LITERATURE AND THE ECONOMICS OF LIBERTY: SPONTANEOUS ORDER IN CULTURE Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009, xviii + 510 pgs. The contributors to this outstanding collection of essays propose a revolution in literary criticism — a revolution, moreover, that has as its heart the