Mises Review

A great many people have learned from Mises and Rothbard, but Lew Rockwell belongs to a much more select class: he has developed their thought in an original way.

Neoclassical economists often make matters more complicated than necessary; but, fortunately, the best of them manage to stumble close to the truth. Jagdish Bhagwati is by no means a committed supporter of the free market. 

Claes Ryn’s thoughtful book might have been written as a brilliant counter to An End to Evil, reviewed elsewhere in this issue. The book exactly diagnoses the cast of mind on display in that blueprint for perpetual war.

Bruce Caldwell has adopted a sensible strategy to cope with the formidable task he has set himself. Friedrich von Hayek was not only one  of the most eminent economists of the twentieth century, 

The Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq provides one further confirmation, if any were needed, of Randolph Bourne’s dictum, "war is the health of the state." 

Roberta Modugno’s excellent book is a fundamental contribution to  our understanding of the history of classical liberalism. She complicates in a remarkable way an argument advanced by Friedrich Hayek.

In the days following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many Americans reacted with panic. Were the attacks the beginning of a war that would imperil the lives of millions in our country?

Keynesian economics has few virtues, but Paul Krugman’s  book, the bulk of which collects many of his controversial columns for the New York Times, shows that even a Keynesian can on occasion have valuable things to say.

If Peter Brimelow is to succeed in showing, as his subtitle states, that teacher unions — he has in mind principally the National Education Association — are destroying American education, he faces a preliminary task.

Much has been made in recent years of the so-called "war on drugs." The pursuit of ecstatic sensations through chemical means, it is alleged, threatens the social order.