[ Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939 . By Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Metropolitan Books, 2006. 242 pgs.] Critics of Roosevelt’s New Deal often liken it to fascism. Roosevelt’s numerous defenders dismiss this charge as reactionary propaganda; but as Wolfgang Schivelbusch makes clear,
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life Nassim Nicholas Taleb Random House, 2018 To review Skin in the Game is a risky undertaking. The author has little use for book reviewers who, he tells us, “are bad middlemen. Book reviews are judged according to how plausible and well-written they are; never in how they map the book (unless of
[ The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States . By Peter B. Bos. Free Trade Press, 2015. Xxv + 620 pages.] This remarkable book reflects the author’s enthusiasm for liberty and his vast intellectual curiosity. I propose to discuss only a few of the book’s central insights, but only reading the book will adequately convey Peter Bos’s
[ Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)] The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Economic Growth, and Increase Inequality by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, viii+ 221 pp. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Progressives
[ Full issue of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 4 (2017)] Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century Edited by Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicholas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2017, xxvii + 272 pp. When Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century was published in 2014 (the French edition had
The Free Market 30, no. 5 (May 2012) In a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 3, 2012, President Obama called a budget proposal of his Republican opponents in Congress “thinly veiled Social Darwinism.” What did did the president mean by this comment? The budget proposal in question, he claimed, would require drastic cuts
Why Liberalism Failed . By Patrick J. Deneen. Yale University Press, 2018. Xix + 225 pages. Patrick Deneen’s thoughtful book poses a challenge to libertarians. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, has with great force identified a fundamental tendency of our times. Destruction of traditional attachments to family, local
There is a central theme in Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed which I failed to note in my review of it. Deenen has a radical view of the role of intellectuals in modern history. He says, “The foundations of liberalism were laid by a series of thinkers whose central aim was to disassemble what they concluded were irrational religious and
[ Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933-1939 . Por Wolfgang Schivelbusch. Metropolitan Books, 2006. 242 pgs.] Los críticos del New Deal de Roosevelt a menudo lo comparan con el fascismo. Los numerosos defensores de Roosevelt desestiman este cargo como propaganda reaccionaria; pero como
[ The Austrian 4, nº 3, Mayo-Junio de 2018] [ Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life · Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Random House, 2018] Reseñar Skin in the Game es una tarea arriesgada. El autor desdeña a los críticos de libros, quienes, nos dice, “son malos intermediarios. () Las críticas de libros se juzgan de acuerdo con lo plausibles y
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