Power and Prosperity, by Mancur Olson
New Light on Socialism
Mises Review 6, No. 2 (Summer 2000)
POWER AND PROSPERITY: OUTGROWING COMMUNIST AND CAPITALIST DICTATORSHIPS
Mancur Olson
Basic Books, 2000, xxviix + 233 pgs.
Public Finance and Public Choice-Two Contrasting Visions of the State, by James Buchanan and Richard Musgrave
The Limits of Public Choice
Mises Review 6, No. 2 (Summer 2000)
PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC CHOICE–TWO CONTRASTING VISIONS OF THE STATE
James M. Buchanan and Richard D. Musgrave
MIT Press, 1999, ix + 272 pgs
In March, 1998, a series of public discussions between James Buchanan and Richard Musgrave took place at the University of Munich; these along with questions from the audience and an Introduction and Conclusion by Hans-Werner Sinn, are transcribed in this valuable book.
Property and Freedom, by Richard Pipes
An Intrinsic Right
Mises Review 6, No. 2 (Summer 2000)
PROPERTY AND FREEDOM
Richard Pipes
Alfred A. Knopf, 1999 xvi + 328 pgs
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Hard Green: Saving the Environment From the Environmentalists, by Peter Huber
Beauty By Contract
Mises Review 6, No. 2 (Summer 2000)
HARD GREEN: SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT FROM THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS. A CONSERVATIVE MANIFESTO
Peter Huber
Basic Books, 1999, xxxi + 223 pgs.
Against the Idols of the Age, by David Stone
Sweet Rationality
Mises Review 6, No. 2 (Summer 2000)
AGAINST THE IDOLS OF THE AGE
David Stove; Edited by Roger Kimball
Transaction, 1999, xxxii + 347 pgs.
The present anthology of David Stove articles is an excellent book throughout, but I should like first to concentrate on a few pages that make a decisive contribution to contemporary thought.
Philosophy and Social Hope, by Richard Rorty
A Man Possessed
Mises Review 6, No. 2 (Summer 2000)
PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL HOPE
Richard Rorty
Penguin Books, 1999; xxxii + 288 pgs
Selected Essays of Frank Knight, by Frank Knight
Frank Knight’s Mixed Legacy
Mises Review 6, No. 3 (Fall 2000)
SELECTED ESSAYS BY FRANK KNIGHT
Volume 1: What is Truth in Economics?
Volume 2: Laissez-Faire: Pro and Con
Ross B. Emmett, Editor
University of Chicago Press, 1999, vol. 1: xxiv + 406 pgs.; vol. 2: vi + 459 pgs.
Economics and the Good Life: Essays on Political Economy, by Bertrand de Jouvenel
The Quantitative Delusion
Mises Review 6, No. 3 (Fall 2000)
ECONOMICS AND THE GOOD LIFE: ESSAYS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Dennis Hale and Marc Landy, Editors
Transaction, 1999, ix + 308 pgs.
When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession, by Charles Adams
Adams’s Stunning Achievement
Mises Review 6, No. 3 (Fall 2000)
WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS: ARGUING THE CASE FOR SOUTHERN SECESSION
Charles Adams
Rowman and Littlefield, 2000; xiv + 257 pgs.
Vietnam: The Necessary War, Michael Lind
In Defense of Unjust War
Mises Review 6, No. 3 (Fall 2000)
VIETNAM: THE NECESSARY WAR. A REINTERPRETATION OF AMERICA’S MOST DISASTROUS MILITARY CONFLICT
Michael Lind
The Free Press, 1999, xix + 314 pgs.
