Social Cooperation, Part 2

Last month I wrote about Ludwig von Mises’s emphasis on social cooperation as the basis of his economic philosophy, particularly in his magnum opus, Human Action. I thought I’d follow up with more thoughts on this subject. Mises was no maverick in this regard. Interest in social cooperation pervades the best classical-liberal and libertarian thought. [...]

Book Reviews – December 2006

• The Ethics of the Market
  by John Meadowcroft Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  
• Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists _in the New Deal Era
  by Gary Dean Best Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr
  
• Philosophers of Capitalism: _Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond
  by Edward W. Younkins Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
  
• Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in _Black America
  by John McWhorter Reviewed by George C. Leef
  

The Declaration of Independence: It’s Greek to Me

The stirring words of Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence said that all men are endowed with certain inalienable rights. To Jefferson these rights existed before the founding of government and the function of government is “to secure these rights.” But he himself said that his ringing words did not express a new idea: “This was the object of the Declaration of Independence.

Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law by J. Budziszewski

InterVarsity Press • 1997 • 252 pages • $15.99 The canard that free-market economists are so narrowly focused on economic concerns that they miss the big picture seems as indestructible as it is indefensible. It was Ludwig von Mises, after all, who said that one cannot be a good economist if he is only an [...]