Gordon, David, “The Befuddling World of the Antieconomist,” The Austrian 7, no. 6 (2021): 14–17. Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016–2020 By Thomas Piketty Yale University Press, 2021 352 pages Thomas Piketty has written a useful book. Readers need no longer plough their way through his vast Capital in the Twenty-First
Gordon, David, “Knowledge in the Service of a Political Agenda is Biased,” The Austrian 8, no. 1 (2022). The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity By David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 Xii + 692 pages The Dawn of Everything , which has already attracted much scholarly attention and is a best seller as well,
David Gordon, “Why So Much Hate for the Free Market?,” The Austrian 8, no. 2 (March–April 2022). The Power of Capitalism: A Journey through Recent History across Five Continents By Rainer Zitelmann LID Publishing, 2018 xiv + 233 pages Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is best known to the scholarly world for his outstanding study of Adolf Hitler’s economic
Gordon, David, “In DeLong Run ...,” The Austrian 9, no. 3 (Jam/June 2023): 18–20. [ Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong, Basic Books, 2022 viii + 605 pp.] J. Bradford DeLong, who teaches economics at UC Berkeley and was a protégé of Larry Summer’s dislikes Austrian economics, which he
Gordon, David, “The Befuddling World of the Antieconomist,” The Austrian 7, no. 6 (2021): 14–17. ¡Viva el socialismo!: Crónicas 2016–2020 Por Thomas Piketty Yale University Press, 2021 352 páginas Thomas Piketty ha escrito un libro útil. El lector ya no necesita leer su vasto El capital en el siglo XXI , ni su aún más extenso El capital y la
Gordon, David, “In DeLong Run ...,” The Austrian 9, no. 3 (Jam/June 2023): 18–20. [ Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century por J. Bradford DeLong, Basic Books, 2022 viii + 605 pp.] J. Bradford DeLong, que enseña economía en la Universidad de Berkeley y fue protegido de Larry Summer, detesta la economía austriaca,
Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin Basic Books, 2021 831 pp. Probably the dominant mainstream view of World War II goes like this. World War II was the “good war.” Though Joseph Stalin was guilty of many crimes, Adolf Hitler, with his vast conquests accompanied by mass murder on a colossal scale, was an immediate threat
[ Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by J. Bradford DeLong, Basic Books, 2022 viii + 605 pp.] J. Bradford DeLong, who teaches economics at UC Berkeley and was a protégé of Larry Summer’s dislikes Austrian economics, which he sometimes assails on his blog. You might reasonably expect that for this reason, I will
Jesús Huerta de Soto, who is professor of economics at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, is the leading representative of the Austrian school of economics in Spain. He is a renowned teacher, and two of his many doctoral students, David Howden and Philipp Bagus, both now themselves professors of economics, have edited a festschrift in his
Moral Progress in Dark Times: Universal Values for the 21st Century by Markus Gabriel, translated by Wieland Hoban Polity Press, 2022; xii + 281 pp. It would be easy to give this book a negative review, as it advocates a number of policies that from our standpoint are wrongheaded. Gabriel is especially alarmed by the dangers of “climate change”
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