Mises Review

When I first saw Politics and Passion, I was inclined to toss it aside. "Just what we need," I sneered: "a more egalitarian liberalism." 

Francis Fukuyama offers us a most peculiar argument, which as best as I can make out goes as follows. We have learned in the twentieth century that free-market economic systems work better than centrally directed ones.

Father Webster and Professor Cole have spoiled what could have been an excellent book; Laurence Vance, besides much else in his remarkable collection of essays, helps us see what is wrong with it.

Thomas Nagel’s valiant attempt to defend John Rawls’s restricted scope for global justice has a valuable, and I am sure unintentional, consequence.

For the editors of The Changing Face of Economics, "cutting edge" is more than a phrase. They have an elaborate theory of how change takes place in economic theory.

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, a theorist much admired by Hitler, claimed in his book The Third Reich (1923) that liberalism and nationalism are necessarily at odds. 

Thomas Woods’s superb new book delivers much more than it promises. Woods offers his book as a guide to "those who find the standard narrative or the typical textbook unpersuasive or ideologically biased." 

Deepak Lal writes as a convinced advocate of American Empire. But in the course of the book, he undermines his own reasons for defending imperialism and offers a devastating criticism of democratic imperialism and of Woodrow Wilson’s Utopianism.

Forrest McDonald takes no prisoners. He has been one of the leading American historians since the publication of We The People in 1958; and much of the present book is an engaging account of his life as a historian.

Reading Robert Higgs’s magnificent collection of essays leaves one puzzled. Higgs is the foremost American economic historian who writes from a free-market perspective.