Competition Can’t Be Planned

Mises Review 11, No. 3 (Fall 2005)

THE ABOLITION OF ANTITRUST
Gary Hull, ed.
Transaction Publishers, 2005, xi + 176 pgs.
 

The authors of this important book have undertaken a twofold task. They continue the free- market criticism of antitrust legislation by Dominick Armentano and other economists who defend laissez-faire. Armentano himself has an excellent article here; and Thomas Bowden and Eric Daniels contribute outstanding discussions of the legal and historical background of antitrust.

Mass Execution as Public Policy

Mises Review 11, No. 3 (Fall 2005)

NO VICTORY, NO PEACE
Angelo M. Codevilla
Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, xv + 191 pgs.
 

If there is such a thing as a good super hawk, Angelo Codevilla is it. He makes many neoconservatives look like pacifists; and he advocates a dangerous course of action, accompanied by quotations from Machiavelli, whom he takes to be an exemplar of political wisdom. As he proceeds to his misguided conclusion, though, he has much of value to teach us.

Finding Meaning

Mises Review 11, No. 3 (Fall 2005)

EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM: SKEPTICISM AND SOCIALISM FROM ROUSSEAU TO FOUCAULT
Stephen R.C. Hicks
Scholargy Publishing, 2004, v + 230 pgs.

The Trouble with Sandelism

Mises Review 11, No.3 (Fall 2005)

PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY: ESSAYS ON MORALITY IN POLITICS
Michael J. Sandel
Harvard University Press, 2005, 292 pgs.
 

A State of Ignorance

Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005)

RESURGENCE OF THE WARFARE STATE: THE CRISIS SINCE 9/11
Robert Higgs
The Independent Institute, 2005, xv + 252 pgs.
 

Robert Higgs has a well-deserved reputation as an eminent economic historian, but in this collection of essays and interviews, he shows himself an adept moral philosopher as well. He subjects the “humanitarian” case for the Iraq War, unfortunately professed by some self-styled libertarians, to withering scrutiny.

Must a Catholic Love the State?

Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005)

THE CHURCH AND THE MARKET: A CATHOLIC DEFENSE OF THE FREE ECONOMY
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Lexington Books, 2005,x + 239 pgs. 
 

Lost in Vienna

Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Fall 2005)

VIENNA AND CHICAGO: FRIENDS OR FOES? A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS OF FREE-MARKET ECONOMICS
Mark Skousen
Capital Press, 2005, 306 pgs.              

Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005)

MODERNITY AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
Alan D. Schrift, Ed.
Chapter 3: Liquidating the “Nearly Just Society”: Radical Evil’s Triumphant Return,” by William L. McBride
Indiana University Press, 2005, 28–38 pgs.  
  

Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005)

THE LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS
Douglas Husak and Peter de Marneffe
Cambridge University Press, 2005, xiv + 204 pgs.

Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005)

DARWINIAN CONSERVATISM
Larry Arnhart
Imprint-Academic, 2005, iv + 156 pgs.

The title of Larry Arnhart’s valuable book seems a paradox. What has Darwinism, a theory about the origins of biological species, to do with a political viewpoint? Arnhart takes conservatism in a broad sense, so that classical liberalism is included within it; although Friedrich Hayek classed himself as an Old Whig rather than a conservative, our author includes him as one the principal exemplars of the political theory he supports.