Brendan Brown reviews Ben Bernanke's 21st Century Monetary Policy. Bernanke gives a blow-by-blow account of his actions as Fed chair and justifies them as the "evolving" nature of the Fed. Unsurprisingly, he refuses to recognize the malaise of monetary inflation.
Patrick Newman reviews The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect. The collection provides an honest assessment of the gold standard, highlighting both the strengths and limitations of the gold standard, while also addressing alternatives such as monetary rules and cryptocurrencies
Joseph Salerno reviews Banking and Monetary Policy from the Perspective of Austrian Economics. Covering topics ranging from inflation targeting to cryptocurrency, this collection is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the Austrian monetary thought.
David Gordon reviews Binyamin Appelbaum's The Economists' Hour. As a critique of free-market economics, the book fails, relying on appeals to competing values and misattributing government failures to the market.
Bob Murphy reviews The Gold Standard: Retrospect and Prospect. This is a useful collection for those who want an evenhanded analysis of the gold standard that extends to modern topics such as cryptocurrency and currency boards.
Paul Gottfried reviews Ulrich Hintze's Theoria Generalis: Das Wesen des Politischen. Hintze argues that true political authority requires individual freedom, and he criticizes modern democracy for devolving into bureaucratic predation.
While Cantillon used the effects on family life to illustrate monetary theory, Degner lingers to employ sound monetary theory to trace out the effects on the family.
We owe a great debt to Gary Galles for collecting no less than 97 of Leonard Read’s articles, accompanied by a commentary of his own in which he shows their relevance to contemporary issues.
Krzysztof Turowski reviews Swolinski and Tomasi's The Individualists: Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism, which provides an intellectual history of libertarianism that was badly needed.
Charles Amos reviews Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Fallacies, taking on the woke on their own grounds. It is an invaluable resource to libertarians and conservatives in these increasingly tense times between the races, sexes, and classes.
