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Book Reviews – May 2006

  • Russian Conservatism and Its Critics
    by Richard Pipes Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling

  • Paying with Plastic: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing

    by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee
    Reviewed by J. H. Huebert

  • The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today

    by Steven Malanga Reviewed by George C. Leef

  • Learning Economics

    by Arnold King Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux

1May2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Capital Letters

 

1Apr2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2006/4

  • The Political Sociology of Freedom: Adam Ferguson and F. A. Hayek
    by Ronald Hamowy 
    Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling

  • The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade

    by Pietra Rivoli  Reviewed by Tom Welch

  • Welfare for Politicians?: Taxpayer Financing of
    Campaigns

    Edited by John Samples  Reviewed by Bradley A. Smith

  • Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus

    by Donald Alexander Downs  Reviewed by George C. Leef

1Apr2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Capital Letters

 

1Mar2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2006/3

  • Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling

  • They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine:Two Centuries of Innovators

    by Harold Evans Reviewed by George C. Leef

  • The Harsh Truth About Public Schools

    by Bruce N. Shortt Reviewed by David L. Littmann

  • Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War

    by Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund, Jr. Reviewed by John Majewski

1Mar2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2006/1

  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America by Lee Ward Reviewed by Becky Akers
  • State of Fear by Michael Crichton Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • A Patriots History of the United States: From Columbuss Great Discovery to the
    War on Terror
    by Larry Schweikert and Michael Allen Reviewed by Burton Folsom Jr.
1Jan2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Reflections on The Freeman

1Jan2006 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2005/12

  • The Roots of Poverty in Latin America by Guillermo M. Yeatts Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • Energy: The Master Resource by Robert L. Bradley, Jr., and Richard W. Fulmer Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • The Second Bill of Rights: FDR
    1Dec2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2005/11

  • Vienna and Chicago: Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics by Mark Skousen Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from Pilgrims to the Present by Thomas J. DiLorenzo Reviewed by Robert Batemarco
  • Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything edited by Gene Healy Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about Americas Economic Future by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns Reviewed by Christopher Westley
1Nov2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2005/10

  • Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • Shakedown: How Corporations, Government, and Trial Lawyers Abuse the Judicial Process by Robert A. Levy Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • Why Globalization Works by Martin Wolf Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster
  • Faith in Freedom: Libertarian Principles and Psychiatric Practices by Thomas Szasz Reviewed by Brian Doherty
1Oct2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2005/9

  • Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • Sowing the Wind: Essays and Articles on Popular Economic Policies that Make Matters Worse by Hans F. Sennholz Reviewed by Bettina Bien Greaves
  • Leviathan: the Growth of Local Government and the Erosion of Liberty by Clint Bolick Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • Private Guns, Public Health by David Hemenway Reviewed by Timothy Wheeler
1Sep2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Reviews

  • Return to Greatness: How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What
    It Needs to Do to Recover It
    by Alan Wolfe
    Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • Exporting America:Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs
    Overseas
    by Lou Dobbs
    Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux
  • Abuse of Power: How Government Misuses Eminent Domain
    by Steven Greenhut
    Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America
    by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
    Reviewed by William H.
    Peterson
1Jul2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews

  • Wilsons War: How Woodrow Wilsons Great Blunder Led to Hitler,
    Lenin, Stalin and World War II

    by Jim Powell Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • Colossus: The Price of Americas Empire
    by Niall Ferguson Reviewed by Doug Bandow
  • The Not So Wild,Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier
    by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
    by Thomas Sowell Reviewed by Craig M. Newmark
1Jun2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2005/5

  • The Dictators: Hitlers Germany, Stalins Russia
    by Richard Overy Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • The Woman and the Dynamo: Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America
    by Stephen Cox Reviewed by Jude Blanchette
  • Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition
    by Jeffrey A. Miron Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient
    Alternative to the Liberal Tradition

    by Thomas Fleming Reviewed by Brian Doherty
1May2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Capital Letters

1Apr2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Economic Freedom: The Path to Development

1Apr2005 | agardner | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2005/4

1Apr2005 | agardner | 6 comments | Continued