Out With Hayek, In With Goldhagen

Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997)

“HAYEK’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND HIS ECONOMICS”
Jeffrey Friedman
Critical Review (Winter 1997): 1–10

The Invisible Hoppe

Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997)

“A FREE MARKET CASE AGAINST OPEN IMMIGRATION?”
Donald Boudreaux
“Notes From FEE”
The Freeman (October 1997)

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.

Private Property’s Philosopher

Mises Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1999)

THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY
Murray N. Rothbard
New York University Press, 1998 [1982], xlix + 308 pgs.

Power Mad

Mises Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1999)

THE ROOSEVELT MYTH
John T. Flynn
Fox and Wilkes, [1948] 1998, xxiv + 437 pgs.

Ralph Raico points out in his incisive introduction to this fiftieth anniversary edition of The Roosevelt Myth that many take sharp criticism of FDR to constitute sacrilege against the civic religion of the United States. “Republican no less than democratic leaders revere and invoke the memory of Franklin Roosevelt” (p. vii).

Ask a Silly Question

Mises Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1999)

THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES
Virginia Postrel
The Free Press, 1998, xviii + 265 pgs.

I am most grateful to Virginia Postrel. In this issue of The Mises Review, I have not had the opportunity to write a really negative review. Certainly I would have liked to; but the books did not permit it. Exemplar of scholarly objectivity that I am, of course I cannot say bad things about good books. Mrs. Postrel has rescued me from my predicament.

The Master Doubter

Mises Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1999)

ECONOMICS OF INCOME REDISTRIBUTION
Gordon Tullock
Kluwer, 1997, 2nd ed., ix + 222 pgs.
and
ON VOTING: A PUBLIC CHOICE APPROACH
Gordon Tullock
Edward Elgar, 1998, ix + 193 pgs.
 

Liberty as a Precondition

Mises Review 5, No.1 (Spring 1999)

THE CHALLENGE OF POST-MODERNITY
Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl
Edward Elgar, 1997, vii + 85 pgs.

Mises Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1999)

“THE HANGOVER THEORY” by Paul Krugman
Slate
December 3, 1998

Paul Krugman is an eminent economist, but he here reveals a woefully inadequate understanding of Austrian business cycle theory. The rudiments of the theory are easy one might have thought that even a Keynesian could grasp them.

Kennan on Germany

Mises Review 5, No. 1 (Spring 1999)

“A LETTER ON GERMANY”
George Kennan
The New York Review of Books XLV, No. 19, December 3, 1998, pp. 19–21

In a brief article, appearing in the form of a letter to his friend Gordon Craig, the eminent diplomat and historian George Kennan reverses an all-too-common view of twentieth-century European history.

Warfare vs. American Liberty

Mises Review 1, No. 4 (Winter 1995)

FORGOTTEN LESSONS: SELECTED ESSAYS OF JOHN T. FLYNN
Edited by Gregory P. Pavlik
Foundation for Economic Education, 1996, vii + 199 pp.