Is It Rhetoric, Or Is It Nonsense?

Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995)

KNOWLEDGE AND PERSUASION IN ECONOMICS
Donald N. McCloskey
Cambridge University Press. xviii + 445 pgs.

The Bankers’ Cartel

Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995)

THE CASE AGAINST THE FED
Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1994, 158 pgs.

The Conscience Of A Canadian

Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995)

DEAD RIGHT
David Frum
Basic Books, 1994, x + 230 pgs

David Frum has identified a central problem affecting much of the American Right. But because he himself supports the Leviathan State to a greater extent than some of those he so readily condemns, he can offer nothing in the way of a solution. For the one group that does offer a way out, Frum has nothing but contempt and calumny.

Big Money, Small Thinkers

Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995)

“WHY INTELLECTUAL CONSERVATISM DIED”
Michael Lind
Dissent (Winter, 1995): 42–47

Up From Buckleyism

Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995)

CATHOLIC INTELLECTUALS AND CONSERVATIVE POLITICS IN AMERICA
Patrick Allitt
Cornell University Press, 1993, xiii +315 pgs.

What Should Anti-Economists Do?

Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995)

THE MARKET PROCESS: ESSAYS IN CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS
Edited by Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko
Edward Elgar, 1994. XV + 304 pgs.

The Capitalist Muse

Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998)

IN PRAISE OF COMMERCIAL CULTURE
Tyler Cowen
Harvard University Press, 1998, xi + 278 pgs.

Is It Really Rothbard?

Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998)

MONEY AND NATION STATE
Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake, Jr., Editors
Transaction Publishers, 1998, viii + 453 pgs.

When I received this book, I turned first to the contribution of Murray N. Rothbard, “The Gold Exchange Standard in the Interwar Years” (pp. 105-65). It is a characteristically brilliant piece, showing in detail how Benjamin Strong and Montagu Norman used the gold exchange standard to further their schemes of monetary manipulation.

Foreign Policy as Pseudo-Science

Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998)

FROM WEALTH TO POWER
Fareed Zakaria
Princeton University Press, 1998, x + 199 pgs.

Mr. Zakaria finds a paradox at the heart of American foreign policy in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The United States at that period was rapidly becoming an economic giant. Yet its role in the international system did not exceed that of far weaker nations. Why did economic strength in this instance go together with diplomatic weakness?

The Politics of Custom

Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998)

PHILOSOPHICAL MELANCHOLY AND DELIRIUM
Donald W. Livingston
University of Chicago Press, 1998, xix + 433 pgs.