Archive for Douglas E. French
Book Review: Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II by Murray N. Rothbard
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited • 1995 • 528 + xvi pages • $99.50 Mr. French is a vice-president in commercial real estate lending for a bank in Las Vegas, Nevada. Years ago Murray Rothbard set out to write an Austrian answer to Robert Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers. Rothbard was much more ambitious than Heilbroner, whose [...]
1Mar1997 | Douglas E. French | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David Friedman
Harper Business • 340 pages + xi pages • 1996 • $25.00 Mr. French is a vice president in commercial real estate lending for a bank in Las Vegas, Nevada. Anyone who has met David Friedman knows he is a man looking to pick an argument. Only the naive or foolish will attempt to joust [...]
1Feb1997 | Douglas E. French | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Central Banks
Mr. French is a vice president in commercial real estate lending for a bank in Las Vegas, Nevada. Believing that America’s central bank, the Federal Reserve, has almighty power over interest rates and, in turn, the well-being of the country’s economy, the financial press constantly focuses its attention on the actions of the Fed. Fed [...]
1Dec1996 | Douglas E. French | 0 comments | ContinuedPrinciple & Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt
Mr. French is a vice president in commercial real estate lending for a bank in Las Vegas, Nevada. In his History of Economics classes, Murray Rothbard told us that it was important not just to study what policies and theories held sway during the past, but to examine why certain economists or politicians advocated the [...]
1Oct1996 | Douglas E. French | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard
Ludwig von Mises Institute 1994 158 pages $9.95 After 80-plus years of inflation and devastating booms and busts, how do we get rid of the cause of these economic cancers? “The only way to do that is to abolish legalized counterfeiting: that is, to abolish the Federal Reserve System, and return to the gold standard,” [...]
1Nov1995 | Douglas E. French | 1 comment | Continued-
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