The New History: A Cover For War Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004) RECOVERING THE PAST: A HISTORIAN’S MEMOIR Forrest McDonald University Press of Kansas, 2004, vii + 198 pgs. Forrest McDonald takes no prisoners. He has been one of the leading American historians since the publication of We The People in 1958; and much of the present book is
Liberty and (Rightly Understood) Nationalism Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004) IN DEFENCE OF THE REALM: THE PLACE OF NATIONS IN CLASSICAL LIBERALISM David Conway Ashgate, 2004, viii + 210 pgs. Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, a theorist much admired by Hitler, claimed in his book The Third Reich (1923) that liberalism and nationalism are
Trade and the Iron Hand Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004) IN PRAISE OF EMPIRES: GLOBALIZATION AND ORDER Deepak Lal Palgrave, 2004, xxvi + 270 pgs. Deepak Lal writes as a convinced advocate of American Empire. But in the course of the book, he undermines his own reasons for defending imperialism and offers a devastating criticism of democratic
The State Eviscerated Mises Review 10, No. 4 (Winter 2004) AGAINST LEVIATHAN: GOVERNMENT POWER AND A FREE SOCIETY Robert Higgs Independent Institute, 2004, xx + 408 pgs. Leading Robert Higgs’s magnificent collection of essays leaves one puzzled. Higgs is the foremost American economic historian who writes from a free-market perspective.
Volume 2, No. 2 (Summer 1999) Tony Lawson, an economics lecturer at Cambridge University, defends a thesis sure to arouse the interest of Austrians. Mainstream economics lies crushed in the fatal grip of positivism. The futile search for constants in human behavior condemns econometrics to sterility; and economic theory as a whole is little
In the latest Critical Review , (Vol.16, No.1), Bryan Caplan offers an original contribution to the socialist calculation argument.(”Is Socialism Really Impossible?”, pp.33-52) He thinks that Mises is right that it is impossible for a socialist system to calculate; but Mises then takes an unwarranted step. Mises concludes that socialism is itself
Richard Russell writes , in part: I’m asked what the U.S. government’s attitude is towards gold. My answer – their attitude is – “Leave gold alone, but definitely don’t encourage people to buy it.” Why do I say that? Answer – Month after month goes by and the authorities have still not OK’d a gold ETF. A gold ETF would allow Americans to buy gold
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