Scalia: Rise to Greatness, 1936–1986 by James Rosen Regnery Publishing, 2023 496 pages James Rosen, who has written biographies of John Mitchell and Dick Cheney, and was for many years a reporter for Fox News, has found an ideal biographical subject in Antonin Scalia,, who served for thirty years on the Supreme Court. The volume under review, the
Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849 by Patrick Newman Mises Institute, 2021, 362 pp. Patrick Newman dedicates Cronyism to Murray Rothbard, and it is a fitting choice, as this outstanding book continues and extends Rothbard’s brilliant interpretation of American history. Newman is eminently qualified to do so, having edited
In last week’s article, I discussed some of the arguments Yoram Hazony gives in his book Conservatism: A Rediscovery in favor of an empiricist procedure in ethics that supports working within a particular national tradition and against the rationalist deductive method of those who without empirical evidence defend the supreme value of freedom by
[ Conceived in Liberty: The New Republic, 1784–1791 . By Murray N. Rothbard. Edited by Patrick Newman. Mises Institute, 2019. 332 pages.] We owe Patrick Newman a great debt for his enterprise and editorial skill in bringing to publication the fifth volume, hitherto thought lost, of Murray Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty . The details of his rescue
The Problem with Lincoln is the culmination of Tom DiLorenzo’s many years of research on Abraham Lincoln. It is a masterly summing-up and extension of his earlier classics The Real Lincoln (2002) and Lincoln Unmasked (2006). DiLorenzo is both a historian and an economist with an expert knowledge of Austrian economics and also of the public choice
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets Thomas Philippon Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019 343 pp. David Gordon (dgordon@mises.org) is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. Thomas Philippon, a French economist who teaches at New York University and advises both the US and French governments, likes the free market.
Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849 por Patrick Newman Instituto Mises, 2021, 362 pp. Patrick Newman dedica Cronyism a Murray Rothbard, y es una elección acertada, ya que este extraordinario libro continúa y amplía la brillante interpretación de Rothbard de la historia americana. Newman está eminentemente cualificado para
En el artículo de la semana pasada, comenté algunos de los argumentos que Yoram Hazony da en su libro Conservatism: A Rediscovery a favor de un procedimiento empirista en ética que apoye el trabajo dentro de una tradición nacional concreta y en contra del método racionalista deductivo de quienes sin pruebas empíricas defienden el valor supremo de
[ Conceived in Liberty: The New Republic, 1784–1791 . Por Murray N. Rothbard. Editado por Patrick Newman. Instituto Mises, 2019. 332 páginas]. Tenemos una gran deuda con Patrick Newman por su empresa y habilidad editorial al traer a la publicación el quinto volumen, hasta ahora creído perdido, de Conceived in Liberty de Murray Rothbard. Los
The Problem with Lincoln es la culminación de muchos años de investigación de Tom DiLorenzo sobre Abraham Lincoln. Es un resumen y una extensión magistral de sus clásicos anteriores The Real Lincoln (2002) y Lincoln Unmasked (2006). DiLorenzo es a la vez historiador y economista con un conocimiento experto de la economía austriaca y también de la
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