Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality, by G.A. Cohen
G.A. Cohen is my favorite Marxist. He takes libertarian-political theory with extreme seriousness, and again and again he makes points devastating to socialism.G.A.
G.A. Cohen is my favorite Marxist. He takes libertarian-political theory with extreme seriousness, and again and again he makes points devastating to socialism.G.A.
Vindicating the Founders is better than I thought it would be. The author proceeds from an excellent idea. The framers have of late come under attack by leftists of various sorts.
Even when compared with other works of philosophy, this is an odd book. Readers who have been spared much acquaintance with contemporary moral philosophy will be inclined to toss the book away when they learn its central thesis.
Socialism and War gathers together F.A. Hayek's most important papers on the socialist calculation debate. Although Hayek played a key role in this debate, his criticism of socialism was by no means confined to it.
You can lead a neoclassical to Austrian waters, but you can't make him drink. Sherwin Rosen, a distinguished Chicago School economist, thinks that gains from trade between neoclassical and Austrian economics are possible.
ohn Robbins begins with an excellent idea, but unfortunately his book does not fulfill the promise of his initial project.
Andrew Koppelman is clearly a writer of considerable intelligence, and exceptionally well-read in political philosophy, ethics, and law. But he puts his talent in the service of a bizarre idea.
Professor Donald Boudreaux, recently installed as president of the Foundation for Economic Education, is off to a bad start. He offers some thoughts on immigration which to my mind succeed only in darkening counsel on this difficult topic.
Conservatives and leftists often characterize the struggle over the contemporary university in the same way, though of course accompanied by opposing value judgments.
Freedom Betrayed is a spirited polemic in support of a contradictory thesis.