Natural Law, Or The Science Of Justice
Lysander Spooner has many great distinctions in the history of political thought.
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When State-Subsidized Industries Attack
While the state supports of industry may have seemed like gifts at the beginning, the distorted framework of the government-directed economy makes everyone worse off.
Review of Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close
Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy is an excellent book of easy-reading essays dealing with environmental policy from the perspective of “free-market environmentalism”
The Political Economy of Economic Freedom, by Alan Peacock
In the decades following World War II, when the scope of government was increasing dramatically, Alan Peacock was one of those rare British economists who argued for less government.
Review of Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy by Robert Higgs
This book is a collection of ten previously published essays that address some of the most important questions of twentieth-century America.
Review of Power and Prosperity by Mancur Olson
I appreciate the fact that the author attempts to construct logical rather than mathematical arguments, as seems to be the disease that has struck most of the economics profession at the present time.
Public Goods and Private Solutions in Maritime History
Among all those goods which have been offered as examples of public goods, national defense and lighthouses have been among the most frequently cited.
The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny by Andrew Bard Schmookler
All human institutions — governments, markets, money, etc. — suffer from the same problem: the imperfections so bitterly denounced by Schmookler. Greed, ignorance, myopia, irrationality are endemic in them all.
Rothians versus a Rothbardian. Review of Walter Block’s The Privatization of Roads and Highways, Human and Economics Factors and Gabriel Roth, ed., Street Smart, Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads
Carnis reviews these two significant and imposing works that were published almost at the same time and are directed to readers interested in the topic of road infrastructure management.
Review of The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism by William J. Baumol
The fundamental idea behind this book, as its title suggests, is that innovation is the driving force behind the remarkable growth miracle of capitalism.
