All in the Family?

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

MARX, HAYEK, AND UTOPIA
Chris Matthew Sciabarra
SUNY Press, 1995. x + 178 pgs.

Within Marx, Hayek, and Utopia lies a very good book struggling to escape. Chris Sciabarra has asked a penetrating question and brought to light important material in his pursuit of an answer to it. Unfortunately, he is enamored of an odd philosophical doctrine that he cannot refrain from discussing. This skews, but does not ruin, his presentation.

Wither’d Garland of War

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

THE COSTS OF WAR: AMERICA’S PYRRHIC VICTORIES
John V. Denson, Editor
Transaction Publishers, 1997, viii + 450 pgs.

Whose Style? Which America?

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

ASSIMILATION, AMERICAN STYLE
Peter D. Salins
Basic Books, 1997, xi + 259 pgs.

Peter Salins, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, has good news. Americans need no longer worry about immigration, so long as a simple and straightforward plan is adopted: all immigrants must assimilate.

No Contest

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

PERFECT COMPETITION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMICS
Frank M. Machovec
Routledge, 1995, xi + 391 pgs.

Cheap Shot

Mises Review 3, No. 3 (Fall 1997)

“UNSOUND CONSTITUTION”
George P. Fletcher
The New Republic (June 23, 1997): 14–18

George P. Fletcher, Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, thinks that the Timothy McVeigh trial teaches us an important lesson about the Constitution. Many Americans, particularly those on the “radical right” labor under a delusion.

In Defense of Secession

Mises Review 3, No. 1  (Spring 1997)

GETTING IT RIGHT: MARKETS AND CHOICES
Robert J. Barro
MIT Press, 1996, xv + 191 pgs.

If one passage in Robert Barro’s excellent book attracts notice in the wrong quarters, he is liable to find himself in serious trouble. Our author, a free-market supporter in the inhospitable climate of Harvard, has previously given evidence of a penchant for nonconformity. But now he goes one step farther: he challenges one of the most entrenched taboos of the American Establishment.

Time on Their Hands

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

THE ECONOMICS OF TIME AND IGNORANCE
Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr., and Mario J. Rizzo
Routledge, 1996 [1985], xxxiii + 265 pgs.

Who’s In Charge?

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

PRESIDENTIAL WAR POWER
Louis Fisher
University Press of Kansas, 1995. xvi + 245 pgs.

A Case Not Closed

Mises Review 3, No.1 (Spring 1997)

SLOUCHING TOWARDS GOMORRAH: MODERN LIBERALISM AND AMERICAN DECLINE
Robert H. Bork
Regan Books/Harper Collins, 1996, xiv + 382 pgs.

With ample reason, Robert Bork indicts contemporary American culture. But he in part misidentifies what is responsible for our current predicament; and as a result, he grossly misunderstands classical liberalism. His rejection of classical liberalism leads him to embrace dangerous doctrine.

Judges Shall Be As Gods

Mises Review 3, No. 1 (Spring 1997)

OVERCOMING LAW
Richard A. Posner
Harvard University Press, 1995, x + 597 pgs.