Mises Review 18, No. 2 (Summer 2012)

THE RULE OF LAW AND THE MEASURE OF PROPERTY
Jeremy Waldron
Cambridge University Press, 2012, xiv + 118 pgs.
 

Classical liberals like Friedrich Hayek and Richard Epstein have often claimed that the rule of law imposes strong constraints on the state’s regulation of private property. If they are right, this would be a very effective argument against such regulation, as the rule of law is an ideal commanding wide respect, by no means confined to those of classical-liberal or libertarian inclinations.

Mises Review 18, No. 2 (Summer 2012)

IS THE MARKET A TEST OF TRUTH AND BEAUTY?: ESSAYS IN POLITICAL ECONOMY
Leland B. Yeager
Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011, x + 528 pages
 

Mises Review 18, No. 2 (Summer 2012)

ORGANIZED CRIME: THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH ABOUT GOVERNMENT
Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Mises Institute, 2012, xi + 219 pages
 

Mises Review 18, No. 2 (Summer 2012)

THE DARWIN ECONOMY: LIBERTY, COMPETITION, AND THE COMMON GOOD
Robert H. Frank
Princeton University Press, 2011, xvi + 240 pgs.
 

Mises Review 18, No. 2 (Summer 2012)

MIND AND COSMOS: WHY THE MATERIALIST NEO-DARWINIAN CONCEPTION OF NATURE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY WRONG
Thomas Nagel
Oxford University Press, 2012, x + 130 pgs.
 

Mises Review 18, No. 2 (Summer 2012)

THE DIM HYPOTHESIS: WHY THE LIGHTS OF THE WEST ARE GOING OUT
Leonard Peikoff
New American Library, 2012, xvi + 378 pages
 

Whatever the failings of this book, its author has a sense of humor. Peikoff writes of his unusual name for his main hypothesis,

Mises Review 18, No. 3 (Fall 2012)

LIBERTARIANISM: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW
Jason Brennan
Oxford, 2012, xvi + 213 pgs.
 

Mises Review 18, No. 3 (Fall 2012)

THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR ON FREEDOM
Laurence M. Vance
Vance Publications, 2012, xvi + 103 pgs.
 

Mises Review 18, No. 3 (Fall 2012)

HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH? MONEY AND THE GOOD LIFE
Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky
Other Press, 2012, x + 243 pgs.

Mises Review 18, No. 3 (Fall 2012)

LIBERTARIAN ANARCHY: AGAINST THE STATE
Gerard Casey
Continuum, 2012, ix + 195 pgs.