THE LONG AFFAIR: THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1785-1800
Conor Cruise O’ Brien
University of Chicago Press, 1996, xvii + 367 pgs.
SELLING WAR: THE BRITISH PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN AGAINST AMERICAN “NEUTRALITY” IN WORLD WAR II
Nicholas John Cull
Oxford University Press, 1995, xv + 276 pgs.
HAYEK AND AFTER: HAYEKIAN LIBERALISM AS A RESEARCH PROGRAMME
Jeremy Shearmur
Routledge, 1996, x + 257 pgs.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A LIBERTARIAN: A PERSONAL INTERPRETATION
Charles Murray
Broadway Books, 1997, xiii + 178 pgs.
A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION: FEDERAL COURTS AND THE LAW
Antonin Scalia
Princeton University Press, 1997, xiii + 159 pgs.
ESSAYS ON CAPITAL AND INTEREST: AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE
Israel M. Kirzner
Edward Elgar, 1996, viii + 166 pgs.
Israel Kirzner has achieved greatest renown as an Austrian economist for his work on entrepreneurship. But he is also a distinguished capital theorist; the present volume usefully collects several of Kirzner’s essays in this field, most notably his 1966 “An Essay on Capital.”
CLASSICAL LIBERALISM: THE UNVANQUISHED IDEAL
David Conway
St. Martin’s Press, 1995, ix + 150 pgs.
ISAIAH BERLIN
John Gray
Princeton University Press, 1996, viii + 189 pgs.
Anthony de Jasay
Edward Elgar, 1996, 71 pgs.
Anthony de Jasay’s short book contains more good sense about political theory than many treatises of enormously greater length. (One thinks, in this connection, of the most overrated book of modern moral philosophy, Rawls’s A Theory of Justice.)
HIDDEN ORDER: THE ECONOMICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
David Friedman
Harper Business, 1996, xi + 340 pgs.
This book starts to derail around Chapter 15. Before then, the work provides a largely sound elementary account of economic principles. Our author writes from a neoclassical, rather than an Austrian perspective; and Austrian readers will find it revealing to compare Friedman’s approach with their own. But of this more later.
