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Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt’s America, Mussolini’s Italy, and Hitler’s Germany, 1933–1939
By Wolfgang Schivelbusch Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Jan2007 | FEE Admin | 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 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Epstein v. Rogers In “Popular Insurrection on Property Rights” (November 2005), Richard Epstein references Will Rogers as saying that he “never found a government spending program he did not like.” Is this the same Will Rogers whom I’ve always attributed with quotes such as “Thank God we don’t get all the government we pay for.” [...]
1Apr2006 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedReflections on The Freeman
“The Freeman has had a definitive influence in Guatemala, where a group of friends, inspired by FEE, founded in 1959 the Center for Social and Economic Studies, which in turn founded Francisco Marroquín University in 1971, dedicated to teaching the ethics, economics, and legal foundations of the free society. We are in debt to The [...]
1Jan2006 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – September 2004
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright Princeton University Press • 2004 • 304 pages • $29.95 Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling One of the most profound insights of economics is that the activities of billions of people can be coordinated without central direction and without most of these [...]
1Sep2004 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2004
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by Benjamin Constant Liberty Fund • 2003 • 558 pages • $22 hardcover; $12 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Nowhere does one find such clear and lucid expositions and defenses of human liberty as those found among the French classical liberals of the nineteenth century, a group [...]
1Jun2004 | FEE Admin | 6 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – April 2004
America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire by Claes G. Ryn Transaction Publishers • 2003 • 221 pages • $34.95 Reviewed by Richard Ebeling In 1988 Robert Nisbet, one of America’s most prominent sociologists and conservative social philosophers, published The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America. He critically [...]
1Apr2004 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – March 2004
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics by Kenneth R. Hoover Rowman and Littlefield • 2003 • 328 pages • $75.00 hardcover; $27.95 paperback Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Why do people hold the views that they do, including and especially their political and ideological views? That question has generated [...]
1Mar2004 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued-
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