Endgames: Questions in Late Modern Political Thought, by John Gray

Gray Areas

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

ENDGAMES: QUESTIONS IN LATE MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
John Gray
Polity Press, 1997, xii + 212 pgs.

John Gray is a hard man to pin down. Just when you think you have understood his position, he declares inadequate what he has advocated only moments before. Endgames thus marks a definite stage forward in John Gray’s thought. Before this book, he changed ideologies every six months: now, matters stay in constant uproar within the confines of a single book.

The Vices of Economists — The Virtues of The Bourgeoisie, by Deirdre McCloskey

An Economist Scorned

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

THE VICES OF ECONOMISTS — THE VIRTUES OF THE BOURGEOISIE
Deirdre N. McCloskey
Amsterdam University Press, 1996, 135 pgs.

Let me set readers’ minds at ease. As most people will have heard, our distinguished author has recently found the gender in which he was born overly confining. Donald McCloskey, a noted economic historian, is now Deirdre McCloskey, and he often calls himself “Aunt Deirdre.”