Review: Slouching Towards Utopia
In this book, DeLong has a firm sense of the immense power of the free market to achieve economic growth. Unfortunately, he goes wrong in many other ways.
In this book, DeLong has a firm sense of the immense power of the free market to achieve economic growth. Unfortunately, he goes wrong in many other ways.
Despite his mistakes, Scalia was an impressive figure who showed himself more than a match for the left-wing elites who dominate the major law schools. The intelligence and wit manifested in his opinions made him one of the major jurists in the history of the Supreme Court, and if we must sometimes dissent from this great dissenter, we should not lightly dismiss him.
“America’s Great Depression” serves as a reminder that a brighter future where these missteps are recognized and no longer pursued, is in fact possible.
The only way the current bust and any future ones can possibly be mitigated is by following Rothbard’s explanation of the Great Depression and taking those lessons to heart, else we will be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression is the essential book to read for those wanting to understand the economic issues we face today.
No one will read For a New Liberty and not see the world with very different eyes afterward.
No one will read For a New Liberty and not see the world with very different eyes afterward.
Kendall shares Murray Rothbard’s antipathy for elite dominance, and sees the Left’s phony push for equality as nothing more than an attempt to install themselves as leaders of a revolutionary social order. Kendall is not for liberty and natural law, but this book is interesting and vital.
Lutheran theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attracted numerous followers in postwar America in part because of his attacks on the free market. Perhaps he should have read Mises.