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Capital Letters
What Do We Do About the Subsidy of History?
I concurred on one point with “The Subsidy of History” by Kevin Carson (June 2008). It is not sound to view the historical development of capitalism as though it evolved strictly by fairness, without including the vices of mankind. Surely history is better stated by Burton Folsom [...]
Capital Letters
Are Corporations Islands of “Calculational Chaos”?
According to Kevin Carson (“Hierarchy or the Market,” The Freeman, April 2008), a private business corporation is in effect “an island of calculational chaos in the market economy.” . . . Carson writes, “Those at the top make decisions concerning a production process about which they likely know as little [...]
Capital Letters
Thanks to Milton Friedman’s brilliance, charisma, and diplomacy he became an ardent spokesman for many free-market reforms in this country. And now Ivan Pongracic, Jr. (“The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman,” September 2007) gives him credit for accomplishing what seems miraculous—convincing Fed officials that the Fed itself was responsible for precipitating the crash and [...]
1Dec2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedJohn Dewey and the Decline of American Education
by Henry T. Edmondson, III Reviewed by Terry Stoops
1Jul2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedSocialism after Hayek
By Theodore A. Burczak Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Jul2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedImpostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy
By Bruce Bartlett Reviewed by William B. Conerly
1May2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedImmigrants: Your Country Needs Them
By Philippe Legrain Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1May2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedModern Liberty and the Limits of Government
By Charles Fried Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Apr2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedThe End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
By Jeffrey D. Sachs Reviewed by Jude Blanchette
1Mar2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedRe-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy
Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close Reviewed by Michael Sanera
1Mar2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedLeviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
By Michael D. Tanner Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Mar2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedStalin: A Biography
By Robert Service Reviewed by Yuri Maltsev
1Jan2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedThree New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelts America, Mussolinis Italy, and Hitlers Germany, 1933-1939
By Wolfgang Schivelbusch Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Jan2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – October 2006
- Reviving the Invisible Hand: The
Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century
by Deepak Lal Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Laws of Fear
by Cass Sunstein Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an
Empire’s
Slaves
by Adam Hochschild Reviewed by Becky Akers
- Why Men Earn More
by Warren Farrell Reviewed by George C. Leef
Book Reviews – September 2006
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On Political
Equality
by Robert A. Dahl
Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling -
Collapse: How
Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond Reviewed
by Gene Callahan -
Economic Liberties
and the Constitution
by Bernard H. Siegan Reviewed by George C. Leef -
Kidney for Sale by
Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market
by Mark J. Cherry Reviewed by William L. Anderson
Book Reviews – August 2006
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Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WW II Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan
by A. C. Grayling
Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling -
How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
by Richard A. Epstein Reviewed
by George C. Leef -
Saving Our Environment from Washington
by David Schoenbrod Reviewed by Jane S. Shaw
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The Quotable Mises
Edited by Mark Thornton Reviewed by William H. Peterson
Book Reviews – June 2006
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly — reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein — reviewed by Gary M. Galles
Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the Worlds Water Crisis by Fredrik Segerfeldt — reviewed by George C. Leef
Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity by James Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Dwight R. Lee — reviewed by Tom Lehman
1Jun2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued-
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Montessori, Dewey and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market In Education
By Jerry Kirkpatrick
