Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and Art Carden University of Chicago Press, 2020 xvii + 227 pages McCloskey and Carden endeavor to explain one of the most striking facts of world history. Since about 1800, there has been an enormous increase in the average standard of
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad. Regnery, 2020 xvi + 240 pages Gad Saad, a psychologist who specializes in applying evolutionary biology to the study of consumer behavior, has written a book of great value, and moreover, it is a book that
Popes normally stick to their bailiwick, faith and worship. But Pope Francis’s criticisms of capitalism came early and often, escalating since the beginning of the covid pandemic. The pontiff describes free market thinking as “magic theories.” “The fragility of world systems in the face of the pandemic has demonstrated that not everything can
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley Random House, 2018 xix + 218 pages Jason Stanley, a noted philosopher of language who teaches at Yale, wishes to render to the public a great service. He will tell us how fascism works, and, as the present tense in his title
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe by David Kertzer Random House, 2018 xxx + 474 pages Historian David Kertzer made a name for himself with his 1997 book The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara . The book covers the until then rarely mentioned case of an Italian Jewish boy who was illicitly baptized by
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter Random House, 2021 [2020] xxii + 628 pages For many people, though not, to be sure, readers of The Austrian , John Maynard Keynes ranks as the greatest economist of the twentieth century; but for Zachary D. Carter, this is a restrained understatement.
Economy, Society, and History by Hans-Hermann Hoppe Mises Institute, 2021 191 pp. In 2004, Hans Hoppe delivered a series of lectures at the Mises Institute about his theory of social evolution, and we are fortunate to have this volume, based on a transcript of those lectures, now available. As one would expect, the book contains much of interest,
Students often ask me to recommend a good introduction to philosophy, and now the question can be answered more easily than in years past. Michael Huemer’s Knowledge, Value, and Reality , published last April, contains a profusion of arguments on important topics and is written in a conversational style that is easy to follow, and is often very
Jason Morgan (jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp) is associate professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan. PRIME MINISTER ABE SHINZŌ’S RESIGNATION AND THE END OF AN ERA IN JAPAN On August 28, 2020, Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzō entered a Tokyo press conference and began speaking. Speculation had been building for weeks that Prime Minister Abe
Tax Tyranny by Pascal Salin Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020, 224 pp. Jörg Guido Hülsmann (guido.hulsmann@univ-angers.fr) is Professor of Economics at the University of Angers. Pascal Salin is one of the most important Continental European economists. Throughout his career, he has developed and defended the principles of a free society against
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