In this article, Dr. Ludwig van den Hauwe reviews Randall G. Holcombe’s From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government. Volume 20, Number 4 (2006) van den Hauwe, Ludwig. “ From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government by Randall G. Holcombe.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 20, No. 4 (2006):
Volume 3, No. 2 (Summer 2000) The book brings together sources that to some Austrians may appear hardly compatible, if not inconsistent. Insiders know that there are some significant differences between the views of, say, Mises , Hayek, and Lachman ,even with respect to method and methodology. However, the book integrates these different
Volume 4, No. 3 (Fall 2001) According to this writer Garrison’s Time and Money is precisely what it purports to be: an exercise in comparative frameworks. Even if it should be recognized that the comparison of different theoretical traditions within a unified graphical and conceptual—framework may require a number of concessions that are not
The recent credit crunch has been characterized as “the first crisis of the age of mass securitization.” 1 Over the past twenty years, large banks have refined strategies of securitizing credit. This means that they originate loans or purchase them from specialized brokers and transfer them to a special-purpose vehicle, which then packages them
Review of Basic Principles of Economic Value , by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (2005), Grove City: Libertarian Press. The book under review contains the Hans F. Sennholz translation of Böhm-Bawerk’s essay Grundzüge der Theorie des Wirtschaftlichen Güterwerts which was originally published, in 1886, in the most important economic journal of its time,
The recently edited Festschrift in honor of Pascal Salin is a highly varied and disparate collection of contributions by colleagues, admirers and friends of the famous French professor of the Université Paris-Dauphine, ranging over a wide variety of subject matters, from personal testimonies and reflections about the methodology of the social
As regards the views about probability of Ludwig von Mises, it is undeniably true that these display considerable nuance and that they can be considered as being of a sui generis variety. Even if Ludwig von Mises’s views on probability exhibit a closer conceptual affinity with Keynes’s philosophy of probability than with the frequency
I. INTRODUCTION The complex issues relating to the interpretation and meaning of different concepts of probability and to the legitimate scope of their useful application in the social sciences and in economics belong to the more controversial topics within the subfield of economic methodology. Several of the most influential economists have
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