Mises Review

There is nothing like a good target to get a writer going, and the contributors to this excellent symposium have found a very worthy target indeed. 

As soon as you glance at this book's dedication, you know that you are in for it: "To the sacred memory of Abraham Lincoln." Mr. Black long held court at the Yale Law School: according to Philip Bobbitt's fawning introduction,

This is not a bad book, but almost every major thesis in it is wrong or unproved. According to our author, human society depends to a large extent on "social capital." 

Roberta Modugno has analyzed the work of Murray Rothbard from the standpoint of her professional specialty, the history of political thought.

Sanford Lakoff admires Max Lerner greatly. As a student of Lerner's at Brandeis University in 1949, his "adulation soon became obvious and made me the butt of jokes." 

The key to Paul Gottfried's brilliant book may be found in note 44 of Chapter 4. Here he remarks: "This original Weberian notion [of a tyranny of values] is most fully developed in Carl Schmitt's controversial essay Die Tyrannei der Werte.

Edmund S. Phelps is no right-wing extremist. Quite the contrary, he stands at the center of Keynesian orthodoxy in economics. 

Professor Mahl's excellent monograph helps clear up a historical mystery. As everyone knows, Americans before Pearl Harbor opposed, in overwhelming numbers, entry into World War II. 

Usually I review a book by getting into the swing of things at once. What is the book's central thesis? and (if possible) How is that thesis mistaken? are the questions that occupy me. 

 Austrians have sometimes been very hard on Lord Robbins. He at one time embraced the views of Mises and Hayek; and in The Great Depression, he presented a resolutely Austrian theory of the business-cycle.