Toward An Austrian Politics

Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995)

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL
Raimondo Cubeddu
Routledge, 1993. xiv + 269 pgs.

Raimondo Cubeddu approaches Austrian economics from an interesting angle. He asks: what implications does it have for political theory? The author has carried out his investigation with extraordinary attention to detail, and readers cannot fail to benefit from his insights and prodigious research.

Lost In The Move?

Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995)

AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IN AMERICA: THE MIGRATION OF A TRADITION
Karen I. Vaughn
Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv + 198 pgs.

I closed Karen Vaughn’s Austrian Economics in America with a sense of disappointment. In several ways, as it seems to me, it fundamentally misconceives its topic.

Post-Charlatanism

Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995)

“ECONOMIC CONSEQUENTIALISM AND BEYOND”
Jeffrey Friedman
Critical Review ( Fall, 1994) 493–502

Gingrich’s Gurus

Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995)

CREATING A NEW CIVILIZATION: THE POLITICS OF THE THIRD WAVE
Alvin and Heidi Toffler
Foreword by Newt Gingrich
Turner Publishing, 1995, 112 pp.

Newt Gingrich claims that “Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framwork of a dynamic, exciting future” (p. 14). The book, he thinks, “is an effort to empower citizenslike yourself to truly take the leap and begin to invent a Third Wave civilization” (p. 17).

America’s Many Propositions

Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995)

ORIGINAL INTENTIONS: ON THE MAKING AND RATIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
M.E. Bradford
University of Georgia Press, 1993, xxiv + 165 pp.

By profession M. E. Bradford was a literary scholar, and Original Intentions, issued shortly after his untimely death, manifests his sure touch for the nuances of words. We can already see Mel Bradford in action by the second word of his title—not “intention” but “intentions.”

Not Even Scholars Are Equal

Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995)

ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION
Harry V. Jaffa
Regnery Gateway, 1994, xv + 408 pp.

Peter Abelard confounded the readers of Sic et Non by placing side-by-side opinions of the Church Fathers that seemed contradictory, while offering no reconciliation. Harry Jaffa has done him one better. Much of his Original Intent consists of contradictory opinions of his own, without excuse or explanation.

Rothbard’s Last Triumph

Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995)

AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, VOLS I & II
Murray N. Rothbard
Edward Elgar, 1995, xvi + 556 pp.

An Unfaithful Companion

Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995)

THE ELGAR COMPANION TO AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS
Edited by Peter J. Boettke
Edward Elgar, 1994, xvii + 628 pp.

The Skeptic As Inquisitor

Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995)

KINDLY INQUISITORS
Jonathan Rauch
University of Chicago Press, 1993. A Cato Institute Book, xi + 178 pp.

Come One, Come All?

Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995)

ALIEN NATION: COMMON SENSE ABOUT AMERICA’S IMMIGRATION DISASTER
Peter Brimelow
Random House, 1995, xix + 327 pp.