Mises Review

With ample reason, Robert Bork indicts contemporary American culture. But he in part misidentifies what is responsible for our current predicament;

Jeff Madrick, an economic journalist of statist bent, shows us the mind of a true leftist at work.

For once a publisher's blurb does not exaggerate. The Economics of Time and Ignorance has indeed been "one of the seminal works in modern Austrian economics" and the book's welcome reissue, with a new introduction, offers an opportunity for its examination here.

At times in this strange book, Mr. Pinkerton sounds like an advocate of the free market; fortunately, he really is not. "Fortunately," because our author has an anti-Midas Touch. 

The intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin has achieved great renown for essays that range from the analysis of liberty to memoirs of Russian poets.

Albert Hirschman is hard to pin down. No sooner does he offer a theory than he thinks of a qualification to it.

Anthony de Jasay's short book contains more good sense about political theory than many treatises of enormously greater length.

In past issues of The Mises Review, I have sometimes criticized Don Lavoie in harsh terms: in fact, some of what I have said about him has been quite horrid.

David Conway stands in resolute opposition to most contemporary Anglo-American political philosophers.

This book starts to derail around Chapter 15. Before then, the work provides a largely sound elementary account of economic principles.