Archive for Robert Batemarco
Robert Batemarco is a vice president of a marketing firm in New York City.
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Most people seize on the failure to practice what one preaches as proof of the error of the message preached. This is the logical fallacy known as tu quoque. It is far more often the case, however, that the message is virtuous but virtue is not what the hypocritical preacher truly seeks. Ha-Joon Chang, author [...]
2Mar2009 | Robert Batemarco | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review ~ Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure by Roger W. Garrison
Routledge • 2001 • 272 pages • $99.00
Reviewed by Robert Batemarco
Although it was Tolstoy who said that “the highest wisdom has but one science—the science of the whole,” these words express with uncanny accuracy the practice of the Austrian school of economics. One of the hallmarks of that school is that it sees [...]
Book Review ~ Theres No Place Like Work by Brian C. Robertson
Spence Publishing Company · 2000 · 206 pages · $24.95
Reviewed by Robert Batemarco
This book is about the choices American parents struggle to make regarding the balance between work and home life. The author, Brian C. Robertson, a research fellow at the New Economy Information Service, has found those choices, over the [...]
Monopoly Politics by James C. Miller III
Hoover Institution Press • 1999 • 157 pages • $17.95
The Founding Fathers were well aware that it takes more than ideas, as important as they are, to permit freedom to flourish. It takes institutions—private property, foremost, and political institutions that will protect rather than plunder it. Thus the political system they established was designed with [...]
Book Review ~ 15 Great Austrian Economists edited with introduction by Randall C. Holcombe
Ludwig von Mises Institute • 1999 • 258 pages • $15.95
Great economists come in many varieties. There are path-breakers, who forge new analytical tools; there are synthesizers, who discern principles capable of explaining disparate phenomena; and there are debunkers, who root out error, strangling it in its own contradictions so that truth may [...]
Book Review ~ Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen by James Bovard
St. Martin’s Press • 1999 • 326 pages • $26.95
It has been said that one of the devil’s favorite tricks is to make you think he does not exist. In Freedom in Chains, James Bovard shows how the cheerleaders for statism have spent the last two and a half centuries trying to persuade [...]
Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law by J. Budziszewski
InterVarsity Press • 1997 • 252 pages • $15.99
Robert Batemarco is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
The canard that free-market economists are so narrowly focused on economic concerns that they miss the big picture seems as indestructible as it [...]
Book Review ~ The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America: Since 1945, 2nd edition by George H. Nash
Intercollegiate Studies Institute • 1996 • 467 pages • $24.95
Dr. Batemarco is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York. He is book review editor of the Review of Austrian Economics.
“We see so far because we [...]
Why Managed Trade Is Not Free Trade
Dr. Batemarco is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
The British historian Thomas Babington Macaulay observed that free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can bestow, is in almost every country unpopular.[1] Indeed, sound economics [...]
Three Fallacies of Rent Control
Dr. Batemarco is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
From New York to Boston to Toronto, rent control is under attack. Not surprisingly, beneficiaries of this legislated plunder of providers rental housing are sparing no effort to maintain their [...]
Book Review: The Truth About the National Debt: Five Myths and One Reality by Francis X. Cavanaugh
Harvard Business School Press • 1996 • 192 pages • $22.95
Dr. Batemarco is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. In this book, [...]
Book Review: Austrian Economics: An Anthology edited by Bettina Bien Greaves
The Foundation for Economic Education • 1996 • 176 pages • $14.95 paperback
Dr. Batemarco is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
In my years in academia, I’ve attended many seminars in Austrian economics and even taught a few. [...]
Book Review: Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade by Douglas A. Irwin
Princeton University Press • 1996 • 275 pages • $30.00
Dr. Batemarco is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
The economics of free trade has virtually nothing to do with professional boxing. Yet this book reminded me of the [...]
Book Review: Economics of a Pure Gold Standard by Mark Skousen
Economics of a Pure Gold Standard, revised 3rd edition
by Mark Skousen
Foundation for Economic Education • 1996 • 192 pages • $14.95
Dr. Batemarco, book review editor of The Freeman, is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
Early in [...]
Book Review: It’s No Gamble: The Economic and Social Benefits of Stock Markets by Lewis D. Johnson and Bohumir Pazderka
The Fraser Institute • 1995 • 173 pages • $19.95 paperback
Dr. Batemarco, book review editor of The Freeman, is director of analytics at a marketing firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
Theodore Roosevelt once quipped, “There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or [...]
Book Review: The Free Society by Lansing Pollock
Westview Press • 1996 • 168 pages • $49.95 cloth • $17.95 paper
Dr. Batemarco, book review editor of The Freeman, is director of analytics at a marketing research firm in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
Failure to go back to first principles in considering what government [...]
Book Review: The Solzhenitsyn Files Edited and with an introduction by Michael Scammell
edition q, inc. • 1995 • 470 pages • $29.95
In addition to editing the book review section of The Freeman, Dr. Batemarco is a marketing research manager in New York City and teaches economics at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York.
“Freedom without a literature is like health without food. It just cannot be. [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
