Between Freedom and Socialism Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) DYNAMICS OF THE MIXED ECONOMY: TOWARD A THEORY OF INTERVENTIONISM Sanford Ikeda Routledge, 1997, xiv + 296 pgs. Ludwig von Mises’s defense of the free market against its rivals extended far beyond the proof of the impossibility of socialist calculation for which he is best known. As
Crank versus Crank Mises Review 3, No.4 (Winter 1997) WITHOUT A PRAYER John W. Robbins The Trinity Foundation, 1997, xvii + 399 pgs. John Robbins begins with an excellent idea, but unfortunately his book does not fulfill the promise of his initial project. Robbins is a disciple of the late Gordon Clark, a major Calvinist philosopher and
What Tower? What Babel? Mises Review 3, No. 4 ( Winter 1997) CULTIVATING HUMANITY Martha C. Nussbaum Harvard University Press, 1997, 338 pgs. Conservatives and leftists often characterize the struggle over the contemporary university in the same way, though of course accompanied by opposing value judgments. On the one side stands the traditional
Island of Sanity Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) LITERATURE LOST John M. Ellis Yale University Press, 1997, x + 262 pgs. Like Martha Nussbaum, whose Cultivating Humanity is addressed above, John M. Ellis is concerned with multiculturalism. His excellent book, taken together with her less than excellent one, enables readers to gain a firm grasp
Central Planning for Self-Esteem Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW AND SOCIAL EQUALITY Andrew Koppelman Yale University Press, 1996, x + 276 pgs. Andrew Koppelman is clearly a writer of considerable intelligence, and exceptionally well-read in political philosophy, ethics, and law. But he puts his talent in the service
The U.S. as Savior Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) FREEDOM BETRAYED Michael A. Ledeen AEI Press, 1996, viii + 167 pgs. Freedom Betrayed is a spirited polemic in support of a contradictory thesis. We need less government, and so we must sponsor a worldwide Democratic Revolution (capitals courtesy of our author) that rests on a massive increase
Out With Hayek, In With Goldhagen Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) “HAYEK’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND HIS ECONOMICS” Jeffrey Friedman Critical Review (Winter 1997): 1–10 Jeffrey Friedman introduces a special issue of his journal devoted to F.A. Hayek with a peculiar claim. Before turning to it, though, I find it odd that, in the issue, only one
The Invisible Hoppe Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) “A FREE MARKET CASE AGAINST OPEN IMMIGRATION?” Donald Boudreaux “Notes From FEE” The Freeman (October 1997) Professor Donald Boudreaux, recently installed as president of the Foundation for Economic Education, is off to a bad start. He offers some thoughts on immigration which to my mind
Paul Krugman owes much of his considerable reputation as an economic theorist to “new trade theory.” Book Review of Pop Internationalism by Paul Krugman . Review of Austrian Economics , 10, no. 1 (1997):
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