[Preface to Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School by Ralph Raico (2012)] Ralph Raico in this brilliant book calls to our attention the dictum of Augustin Thierry: “The great precept that must be given to historians is to distinguish instead of confounding” (p. 136). Thierry, as Raico shows, did not always follow his own advice; but the
[ Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics • By Kenneth B. McIntyre • Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2011 • Xv + 238 pages] Kenneth McIntyre has given us a deeply thoughtful and erudite account of one of the greatest 20th-century historians, Hebert Butterfield. I should like to concentrate on an aspect of Butterfield’s
[ Robert Nozick . By Ralf M. Bader. Continuum, 2010. Xii + 136 pages] Ralf Bader has given us an excellent guidebook to Anarchy, State, and Utopia , but he has done much more than this. He offers insightful arguments of his own, often in defense of Nozick against his nonlibertarian critics. His book is a major advance in libertarian political
[ Living Economics: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow . By Peter J. Boettke. Independent Institute — Universidad Francisco Marroquin. xx + 435 pages] This notable book collects 22 articles by Peter Boettke; 8 of these have been written in collaboration with others, including Peter Leeson, Christopher Coyne, Steve Horwitz, David Prychitko, and
Although Leland Yeager calls himself a fellow traveler of the Austrian School (p. 100), rather than a full-fledged member of it — he is a fellow traveler of the Chicago School as well — no reader of his essays can fail to note one respect in which he resembles two quintessential Austrian economists, Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard . Like
Murray Rothbard regarded Ronald Hamowy as the funniest person he had ever known, and when I met him in 1979, it was easy to see why. Once in a bookstore near UC Berkeley, he paid for a book by credit card, which wasn’t then as common as it is today. The sales clerk said, “This is all right, but personally I just use credit cards in emergencies.”
No one who met Jim Sadowsky could ever forget him. I first saw him at a conference at Claremont University in California in August 1979; his great friend Bill Baumgarth, a political science professor at Fordham, was also there. His distinctive style of conversation at once attracted my attention. He spoke in a very terse way, and he had no
[Prefacio a Classical Liberalism and the Austrian School por Ralph Raico (2012)] En este brillante libro Ralph Raico llama nuestra atención sobre el dictamen de Agustín Thierry: “ El gran precepto para los historiadores es el de distinguir en lugar de confundir”. (p. 136). Thierry, como demuestra Raico, no siempre siguió su propio consejo, pero
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