Biographies

John Kenneth Galbraith has been a socialist--which is to say, an opponent of freedom--for nearly all of his career. 

Raimondo's new biography of this intellectual giant is energetic, fair, comprehensive, and well-researched. You will be drawn to Rothbard's style of thinking and approach to ideas.

As usual Murray Rothbard was right. In his Classical Economics, he contrasts John Stuart Mill with his father James Mill: "Instead of possessing a hard-nosed cadre intellect, John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hard core,

At the end of the century, Bill Clinton declared Franklin D. Roosevelt the "man of the century" for having "saved capitalism," echoing the gushing praise that Newt Gingrich has heaped on FDR, calling him "the greatest figure of the twentieth century." The greatest phony of the twentieth century would be more appropriate.

Richard Cantillon is virtually unknown today, but he pioneered a new way to examine social and economic affairs.  

"The trouble with socialism," Oscar Wilde once wrote, "is that it takes too many evenings." Indeed, the private lives of socialists are highly politicized. They must not be interested in anything-not even their families-other than socialism. The theory must inform every aspect of their lives, which must be a microcosm of a socialist society: there must be no escape from the All-Embracing Theory. Or the All-Embracing State.

Mises and Hayek make the list as published in the Canberra Times.

Richard Posner, often said to have free-market sympathies, will mediate the Microsoft case. But he can't be trusted to defend property rights, says Walter Block.
 

She was Murray's "indispensable framework" and a scholar in her own right.