ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW AND SOCIAL EQUALITY
Andrew Koppelman
Yale University Press, 1996, x + 276 pgs.
Andrew Koppelman is clearly a writer of considerable intelligence, and exceptionally well-read in political philosophy, ethics, and law. But he puts his talent in the service of a bizarre idea.
FREEDOM BETRAYED
Michael A. Ledeen
AEI Press, 1996, viii + 167 pgs.
Freedom Betrayed is a spirited polemic in support of a contradictory thesis. We need less government, and so we must sponsor a worldwide Democratic Revolution (capitals courtesy of our author) that rests on a massive increase in the power of the state.
“HAYEK’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND HIS ECONOMICS”
Jeffrey Friedman
Critical Review (Winter 1997): 1–10
“A FREE MARKET CASE AGAINST OPEN IMMIGRATION?”
Donald Boudreaux
“Notes From FEE”
The Freeman (October 1997)
Professor Donald Boudreaux, recently installed as president of the Foundation for Economic Education, is off to a bad start. He offers some thoughts on immigration which to my mind succeed only in darkening counsel on this difficult topic.
THE ETHICS OF LIBERTY
Murray N. Rothbard
New York University Press, 1998 [1982], xlix + 308 pgs.
THE ROOSEVELT MYTH
John T. Flynn
Fox and Wilkes, [1948] 1998, xxiv + 437 pgs.
Ralph Raico points out in his incisive introduction to this fiftieth anniversary edition of The Roosevelt Myth that many take sharp criticism of FDR to constitute sacrilege against the civic religion of the United States. “Republican no less than democratic leaders revere and invoke the memory of Franklin Roosevelt” (p. vii).
THE FUTURE AND ITS ENEMIES
Virginia Postrel
The Free Press, 1998, xviii + 265 pgs.
I am most grateful to Virginia Postrel. In this issue of The Mises Review, I have not had the opportunity to write a really negative review. Certainly I would have liked to; but the books did not permit it. Exemplar of scholarly objectivity that I am, of course I cannot say bad things about good books. Mrs. Postrel has rescued me from my predicament.
ECONOMICS OF INCOME REDISTRIBUTION
Gordon Tullock
Kluwer, 1997, 2nd ed., ix + 222 pgs.
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ON VOTING: A PUBLIC CHOICE APPROACH
Gordon Tullock
Edward Elgar, 1998, ix + 193 pgs.
THE CHALLENGE OF POST-MODERNITY
Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl
Edward Elgar, 1997, vii + 85 pgs.
“THE HANGOVER THEORY” by Paul Krugman
Slate
December 3, 1998
Paul Krugman is an eminent economist, but he here reveals a woefully inadequate understanding of Austrian business cycle theory. The rudiments of the theory are easy one might have thought that even a Keynesian could grasp them.
