In this article, Samuel Bostaph reviews Thomas E. Woods, Jr.’s books, The Church Confronts Modernity: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era and The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy.
In this article, Robert Bass reviews Tibor Machan’s Ayn Rand.
Murray N. Rothbard was an economist, a philosopher, an historian, and a cultural commentator. He was immensely prolific, and also devoted to synthesizing strands of thought often kept separate by the disciplinary structure of modern academia.
According to many economists we need the state to provide public goods. The assertion seems to be so crystal-clear that it is not even worth discussion in the mainstream.
This paper will explore in depth the issues raised in La Terra Trema (“The Earth Trembles,” 1948). Director Visconti, raised in an aristocratic life of privilege, sets out to give an exposé of the poor working conditions of Sicilian fisherman. But, in a turn of ideology, one family mortgages their meager house and buys their own boat to get out from under the oppressive capitalists, and voila, they become owners themselves
Judith Jarvis Thomson’s “A Defense of Abortion” (1971) was first published more than 30 years ago. Since the publication of Thomson’s paper, the morality of abortion has remained the most discussed topic in practical ethics. Thomson’s paper has led the way in that discussion, easily being the most discussed and the most influential of the many papers published on the topic.
In this article, J.H. Huebert reviews Richard A. Posner’s Catastrophe: Risk and Response.
In this article, Dr. Ludwig van den Hauwe reviews Randall G. Holcombe’s From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government.
In this article, Leigh Kathryn Jenco reviews William T. de Bary’s Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good, and William C. Kirby’s Realms of Freedom in Modern China.
The theory of the emergence of the State both in public choice literature and in neoclassical economics assumes that social interaction is prone to “failure” on the model of neoclassical “market failure” theory. It assumes a state of nature, an anarchist utopia, as James M. Buchanan has termed it. In the language of game theory, three sorts of social dilemma must be solved to achieve a stable society: the coordination game, the prisoners’ dilemma, and the chicken game.
