Media and Culture

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Dale Steinreich

The Bias Against Guns is overall a less technical book than More Guns, Less Crime, but in its later chapters, quite a few portions are still way over the heads of most laypersons.

Walter Block

 Both the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Review of Austrian Economics are now publishing regularly and have been doing so ever since their respective inceptions. 

Morgan O. Reynolds

Economists are familiar with the cliche' "lies, demand lies, and statistics," which puts statistics at the top of the pyramid of lies.

Shawn Ritenour

In sum, Economics and Culture is a serious attempt to bring economic analysis to bear on cultural issues. It is a fine survey of the cultural economics literature and makes a number of good isolated 

David N. Laband

It is much more likely that firsthand inspection by journal editors and reviewers who are relatively more familiar with the subject matter in question will place an appropriate value on the prospective scholarly contributions. 

Daniel Sutter

The efficacy of the decentralized market process is perhaps the foremost contribution of Austrian economics. But if Austrians are correct about the performance of spontaneous order processes,

William L. Anderson

While criticizing the behavior of Austrian economists, Laband and Tollison assert that their purpose is not to “knock” Austrian economics.

Daniel Sutter

Laband and Tollison (2000) warn that specialized Austrian journals encourage excessive within-group communication at the expense of exchanges of ideas with the broader economics profession.

Paul A. Cantor

Quarter Notes and Banknotes is a genuinely interdisciplinary book and shows that an economic perspective can illuminate our understanding of the development of classical music.

Leland B. Yeager

What the author objects to is assertions about morality linked to misconceptions and word games concerning money and its functions, property, and titles. Modern money does not consist and does not pretend to consist of commodities.