No Contest

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

PERFECT COMPETITION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMICS
Frank M. Machovec
Routledge, 1995, xi + 391 pgs.

Cheap Shot

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

“UNSOUND CONSTITUTION”
George P. Fletcher
The New Republic (June 23, 1997): 14–18

George P. Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, thinks that the Timothy McVeigh trial teaches us an important lesson about the Constitution. Many Americans, particularly those on the “radical right” labor under a delusion.

In Defense of Secession

Mises Review 3, No. 1  (Spring 1997)

GETTING IT RIGHT: MARKETS AND CHOICES
Robert J. Barro
MIT Press, 1996, xv + 191 pgs.

If one passage in Robert Barro’s excellent book attracts notice in the wrong quarters, he is liable to find himself in serious trouble. Our author, a free-market supporter in the inhospitable climate of Harvard, has previously given evidence of a penchant for nonconformity. But now he goes one step farther: he challenges one of the most entrenched taboos of the American Establishment.

Time on Their Hands

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

THE ECONOMICS OF TIME AND IGNORANCE
Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., and Mario J. Rizzo
Routledge, 1996 [1985], xxxiii + 265 pgs.

Who’s In Charge?

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWER
Louis Fisher
University Press of Kansas, 1995. xvi + 245 pgs.

A Case Not Closed

Mises Review 3, No.1 (Spring 1997)

SLOUCHING TOWARDS GOMORRAH: MODERN LIBERALISM AND AMERICAN DECLINE
Robert H. Bork
Regan Books/Harper Collins, 1996, xiv + 382 pgs.

With ample reason, Robert Bork indicts contemporary American culture. But he in part misidentifies what is responsible for our current predicament; and as a result, he grossly misunderstands classical liberalism. His rejection of classical liberalism leads him to embrace dangerous doctrine.

Judges Shall Be As Gods

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

OVERCOMING LAW
Richard A. Posner
Harvard University Press, 1995, x + 597 pgs.

In Defense of Women

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

FEMINISM IS NOT THE STORY OF MY LIFE:  HOW TODAY’S FEMINIST ELITE HAS LOST TOUCH WITH THE REAL CONCERNS OF WOMEN
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Doubleday, 1996, x + 275 pgs.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese has had an idea brilliant in its simplicity and common sense. Feminism arouses furious passions, as supporters and opponents incessantly battle one another. Each party remains committed to its own doctrine, and the endless polemics resolve nothing.

The Ultimate Bailout

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

“SOCIAL SECURITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS”
The New York Review of Books (December 16, 1996): 68–72
 

Economists Try the Vision Thing

Mises Review 2, No. 2 (Summer 1996)

THE CRISIS OF VISION IN MODERN ECONOMIC THOUGHT
Robert Heilbroner and William Milberg
Cambridge University Press, 1995, ix + 133 pgs.