Lost In The Move? Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS IN AMERICA: THE MIGRATION OF A TRADITION Karen I. Vaughn Cambridge University Press, 1994. xiv + 198 pgs. I closed Karen Vaughn’s Austrian Economics in America with a sense of disappointment. In several ways, as it seems to me, it fundamentally misconceives its topic. Vaughn
Post-Charlatanism Mises Review 1, No. 3 (Fall 1995) “ECONOMIC CONSEQUENTIALISM AND BEYOND” Jeffrey Friedman Critical Review ( Fall, 1994) 493–502 The first part of Jeffrey Friedman’s piece, an account of the stages in the intellectual evolution of Critical Review , led me to have hope for him and his journal. I do not regularly see Critical Review
Gingrich’s Gurus Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) CREATING A NEW CIVILIZATION: THE POLITICS OF THE THIRD WAVE Alvin and Heidi Toffler Foreword by Newt Gingrich Turner Publishing, 1995, 112 pp. Newt Gingrich claims that “Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framwork of a dynamic, exciting
America’s Many Propositions Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ORIGINAL INTENTIONS: ON THE MAKING AND RATIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION M.E. Bradford University of Georgia Press, 1993, xxiv + 165 pp. By profession M. E. Bradford was a literary scholar, and Original Intentions , issued shortly after his untimely death, manifests his
Not Even Scholars Are Equal Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ORIGINAL INTENT AND THE FRAMERS OF THE CONSTITUTION Harry V. Jaffa Regnery Gateway, 1994, xv + 408 pp. Peter Abelard confounded the readers of Sic et Non by placing side-by-side opinions of the Church Fathers that seemed contradictory, while offering no reconciliation. Harry Jaffa has
Rothbard’s Last Triumph Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) AN AUSTRIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, VOLS I & II Murray N. Rothbard Edward Elgar, 1995, xvi + 556 pp. Murray Rothbard tells us that this gigantic work was first envisioned as a “standard Adam Smith-to-the-present moderately sized book, a sort of contra-[Robert]
An Unfaithful Companion Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) THE ELGAR COMPANION TO AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Edited by Peter J. Boettke Edward Elgar, 1994, xvii + 628 pp. This entry in Edward Elgar’s Companion Series purports to be a survey and guide to modern Austrian economics. It contains eighty-seven articles on a variety of topics related to the
The Skeptic As Inquisitor Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) KINDLY INQUISITORS Jonathan Rauch University of Chicago Press, 1993. A Cato Institute Book, xi + 178 pp. According to journalist Jonathan Rauch, malign forces, subsumed under the categories Fundamentalists and Humanitarians, threaten freedom of thought and speech. Rauch hopes to thwart
Come One, Come All? Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) ALIEN NATION: COMMON SENSE ABOUT AMERICA’S IMMIGRATION DISASTER Peter Brimelow Random House, 1995, xix + 327 pp. The customary approach to immigration by libertarians has been a simple one. No restrictions on freedom of entry into a country (or exit from it) can be justified; as Robert
Is It Rhetoric, Or Is It Nonsense? Mises Review 1, No. 1 (Spring 1995) KNOWLEDGE AND PERSUASION IN ECONOMICS Donald N. McCloskey Cambridge University Press. xviii + 445 pgs. This is a most peculiar book. As a glance at McCloskey’s enormous bibliography suffices to reveal, our author appears to have read everything. And he isn’t faking. As the text
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