A State of Ignorance Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005) RESURGENCE OF THE WARFARE STATE: THE CRISIS SINCE 9/11 Robert Higgs The Independent Institute, 2005, xv + 252 pgs. Robert Higgs has a well-deserved reputation as an eminent economic historian, but in this collection of essays and interviews, he shows himself an adept moral philosopher as
Must a Catholic Love the State? Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005) THE CHURCH AND THE MARKET: A CATHOLIC DEFENSE OF THE FREE ECONOMY Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Lexington Books, 2005,x + 239 pgs. Thomas Woods here addresses a question that many of his readers will find of vital personal concern, but even those who need not confront this question
Lost in Vienna Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Fall 2005) VIENNA AND CHICAGO: FRIENDS OR FOES? A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS OF FREE-MARKET ECONOMICS Mark Skousen Capital Press, 2005, 306 pgs. Mark Skousen has undertaken a valuable project, but his book is not altogether a success. He compares the Austrian and Chicago Schools on several topics,
Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005) MODERNITY AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL Alan D. Schrift, Ed. Chapter 3: Liquidating the “Nearly Just Society”: Radical Evil’s Triumphant Return,” by William L. McBride Indiana University Press, 2005, 28–38 pgs. William McBride, a leading authority on Sartre’s philosophy, looks at John Rawls’s theory of justice
Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005) THE LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS Douglas Husak and Peter de Marneffe Cambridge University Press, 2005, xiv + 204 pgs. This book is part of the valuable series For And Against, in which two philosophers debate public policy issues. Husak argues that the possession and use of so-called dangerous drugs such as heroin and
Mises Review 11, No. 4 (Winter 2005) DARWINIAN CONSERVATISM Larry Arnhart Imprint-Academic, 2005, iv + 156 pgs. The title of Larry Arnhart’s valuable book seems a paradox. What has Darwinism, a theory about the origins of biological species, to do with a political viewpoint? Arnhart takes conservatism in a broad sense, so that classical liberalism
Though it is easy to characterize democracy, recent political theory has been marked by a conspicuous omission. Virtually no argument is ever offered to support the desirability of representative democracy, and the little that is available seems distressingly weak. Why ought democracy to be either instituted or promoted, let alone exported, as a
From the Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1995.
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