Archive for Robert W. McGee
Arab Terrorism: Causes and Cure
Some of the information in this article was obtained from the April 1996 issue of Washington Report On Middle East Affairs. Politicians are quick to condemn Arab terrorism such as the 1983 attack that killed 241 U.S. servicemen in Beirut, Lebanon, the Oklahoma City bombing (that turned out not to be the work of Arab [...]
1Dec1996 | Robert W. McGee | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Tax Free 2000: The Rebirth of American Liberty by Murray Sabrin
Prescott Press, Inc., Lafayette, Louisiana • 1995 • 240 pages • $12.99 paperback If you hate taxes, then you’ll love Murray Sabrin’s Tax Free 2000. Dr. Sabrin traces the history and evolution of taxes from ancient times through the Middle Ages and up until the ratification of the 16th Amendment, which gave the federal government [...]
1Oct1995 | Robert W. McGee | 0 comments | ContinuedBusiness in the Global Community
Dr. McGee teaches at Seton Hall University. He is co-compiler, with Bettina Bien Greaves, of Mises: An Annotated Bibliography (FEE, 1993). Economic nationalism is on the rise. Hardly a day passes without an article or two about the disharmony that trade causes. French farmers insist they should be protected from foreign fruits and vegetables and [...]
1Jul1994 | Robert W. McGee | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Liberty, Property, and The Foundations of the American Constitution Edited by Ellen Frankel Paul and Howard Dickman
State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, NY 12246 • 1989 • 181 pages • $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper This book consists of eight essays, written by eight different scholars, and edited by Ellen Frankel Paul and Howard Dickman of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. The unifying [...]
1Dec1989 | Robert W. McGee | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Lexicon of Economic Thought by Walter E. Block and Michael A. Walker
The Fraser Institute, 626 Bute Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6E 3M1 • 1989 • 390 pages • $29.95 (U.S.) cloth, $1.9.95 (U.S.) paper As the title states, this book is a lexicon of economic thought. Each of the several hundred economic definitions is one to three pages in length. But unlike other lexicons and dictionaries, [...]
1Nov1989 | Robert W. McGee | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: A Theory of Socialism And Capitalism: Economics, Politics, And Ethicsz by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 101 Philip Drive, Assinippi Park, Norwell, MA 02061 • 1989 • 275 pages • $40.00 cloth This book is an interesting blend of scholarship and polemic. The text is 210 pages, followed by 48 pages of notes, a 13-page bibliography, and a brief index, which makes it a good source document for [...]
1Sep1989 | Robert W. McGee | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The American Job Machine by Richard B. McKenzie
Universe Books, 381 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 1988 • 274 pages • $24.95 doth, $12.95 paperback The issue of “jobs” has become a sacred cow. Politicians, business and labor leaders all advocate creating more of them, yet nobody dares advocate destroying them. But this outlook is shortsighted, as Richard McKenzie points out. [...]
1Jul1989 | Robert W. McGee | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Advertising And The Market Process: A Modern Economic View by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., and David S. Saurman
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 177 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 • 1988 • 212 pages • $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paperback Professors Ekelund and Saurman take the neo-Austrian view that advertising promotes human welfare by providing market information and lowering search costs. They see this view as a minority perspective, but one that [...]
1Jun1989 | Robert W. McGee | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Privatization and Development Edited by Steve H. Hanke
International Center for Economic Growth/ICS Press. 243 Kearny Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 • 1987 • 237 pages • $29.95 cloth, $12.95 paper This book is a “how-to” manual on privatization, which Hartke defines as “contracting with or selling to private parties the functions or firms previously controlled or owned by governments.” However, whereas most [...]
1Apr1989 | Robert W. McGee | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: When Government Goes Private: Successful Alternatives To Public Services by Randall Fitzgerald
Universe Books, 381 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016 1988 * 330 pages * $24.95 cloth By the time I got halfway through the introduction to this book, I wanted to send a copy to the mayor of the town where I live. Randall Fitzgerald documents literally hundreds of ways that local and national [...]
1Mar1989 | Robert W. McGee | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Public Choice And Constitutional Economics edited by James D. Gwartney and Richard E. Wagner
JAI Press, Inc., 55 Old Post Road, No. 2, Greenwich, Connecticut 126830, 1988 • 422 pages, $56.50 (Available at $29.95 from Laissez Faire Books, Department F, 532 Broadway, New York, NY 10012-3956: Telephone: 212-925-8992) This book is a compilation of eighteen articles written by authors from slightly different perspectives, There are essays by James D. [...]
1Jan1989 | Robert W. McGee | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Supreme Courts Constitution: An Inquiry into Judicial Review And Its Impact on Society by Bernard H. Siegan
Transaction Books. Rutgers University, New Brunswick. NJ 08903 * 1987 * 215 pages • $29,95 cloth, $14.95 paperback Bernard Siegan has written a number of books dealing with economic regulation i and the tension between government and the individual, such as Economic Liberties and the Constitution, Land Use Without Zoning, and Other People’s Property, and [...]
1Oct1988 | Robert W. McGee | 0 comments | Continued-
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