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Book Review: Learning Economics, by Arnold Kling
Learning Economics by Arnold Kling Xlibris Corp. • 2004 • 376 pages • $32.99 hardcover; $22.99 paperback Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux Because the marginal social value of eloquent explanations of basic economics exceeds the marginal social cost of supplying these explanations, efficiency requires that more such explanations be produced. Got that? The jargon-laden opening [...]
1May2006 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: In Defense of Global Capitalism, by Johan Norberg
In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg English translation by Roger Tanner. Timbro • 2001 • 291 pages • $11.95 paperback Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux In Defense of Global Capitalism fully accomplishes the goal revealed by its title. Here, Swedish historian and political writer Johan Norberg adeptly explains why free trade and free [...]
17Mar2003 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics, by David Levy
How the Dismal Science Got Its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics by David Levy University of Michigan Press • 2001 • 320 pages $52.50 hardcover; $21.95 paperback Reviewed by Karen I. Vaughn For about a century and a half, economics has been known as the “dismal science.” While perhaps few remember [...]
16Mar2003 | Karen I. Vaughn | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams, by Steven J. Milloy
Junk Science Judo: Self-Defense Against Health Scares and Scams by Steven J. Milloy Cato Institute • 2001 • 191 pages • $18.95 Reviewed by Theodore Balaker So much of staying healthy and sane is worrying about what’s important and not sweating the small stuff. It makes sense to worry about, say, getting enough exercise since [...]
18Jan2003 | Theodore Balaker | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
Is there actually any such thing as a science of economics? Sidney Schoeffler, in a remarkably stimulating book called The Failures of Economics (Harvard University Press, $4.75), goes pretty far toward saying that the subject just doesn’t exist in any scientific sense of the word.This does not mean that he considers economists to be superfluous. [...]
1Sep1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Kingdom Without God: Roads End for the Social Gospel by Gerald Heard and Edmund A. Opitz and The Powers That Be: Case Studies of the Church in Politics by Edmund A. Opitz
Introduction by James C. Ingebretsen. Los Angeles: Foundation for Social Research. 196 pp. $2.50. Introduction by Admiral Ben Moreell. Los Angeles: Foundation for Social Research. 104 pp. $1.50. (Both books as a set, $3.00) First, there is Religion. Then there is the Church. and inevitably there are Prophets. That seems to be the regular order [...]
1Sep1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Military Policy and National Security edited by William W. Kaufman
Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press. 274 pp. $5.00. This book covers a wide field and parts of it are of special interest to lovers of liberty. The introduction and chapters on “The Requirements of Deterrence,” “Limited Warfare,” and “Force and Foreign Policy” are by Professor Kaufmann. Mr. Roger Hilsman discusses “Strategic Doctrines for Nuclear [...]
1Sep1956 | Hoffman Nickerson | 0 comments | ContinuedWell Worth Reading
Controlling the Atom: “For the first time in history,” writes Arthur Kemp, “a technological discovery impinged directly upon the political bases of a society.” Atomic energy was developed into a bomb under a government monopoly, but is government the proper agency for developing atoms for peace? No, says Professor Kemp. “The sooner a maximum degree [...]
1Sep1956 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
The late Charles A. Beard was a complex and often contradictory character. While he did not invent the “economic interpretation” of history, he gave it its first great impetus in America by writing his An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. That was back in 1913, the lyric year when social change [...]
1Aug1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: An International Economy by Gunnar Myrdal
New York: Harper & Brothers. 381 pp. $6.50. When Gunnar Myrdal was professor of political economy at Stockholm University, he expounded the doctrines of Keynes. When he was Swedish minister of commerce, he did not hesitate to impose government control over exports, imports, and foreign exchange in order to assure “full employment.” Now that he [...]
1Aug1956 | Hans F. Sennholz | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Challenge of Liberty by Robert V. Jones
Chicago: The Heritage Foundation, Inc. 429 pp. $5.00. This book contains a challenge to all who would be free. Mr. Jones concludes, rightly I believe, that “the success of liberty depends only upon its being used.” It is as simple as that. Or is that so simple? Americans have come so far along the road [...]
1Aug1956 | Mallory Cross Johnson | 1 comment | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
“Straight thinking,” says George Leland Bach in his Economics: An Introduction to Analysis and Policy (New York: Prentice-Hall. 720 pp. $6.50), “is hard work.” And he continues, “Straight thinking in economics is especially hard.” Since Professor Bach, a most undogmatic man, writes for thousands of students, his opinion about thinking is especially important. But even [...]
1Jul1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Professional Public Relations and Political Power by Stanley Kelley, Jr.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 247 pp. $4.50. In one of his debates with Douglas, Abraham Lincoln observed, “He who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.” Inasmuch as public opinion is so decisive, anyone concerned with the national [...]
1Jul1956 | Charles Hull Wolfe | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Decline of American Liberalism by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.
New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 401 pp. $7.50. In the very infancy of the American Republic, the tradition of central authority and political privilege began to assert itself despite the liberal individualistic philosophy and limited government ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. For instance, though the [...]
1Jul1956 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Americas Concentration Camps: The Facts about Our Indian Reservations Today by Carlos B. Embry
New York: David McKay Company, Inc. 242 pp. $3.50. The significance of the present American dilemma becomes more obvious when we examine the plight of the American Indian, whose welfare has been the concern of the federal government for some years now. To those unfamiliar with the situation, the title of this important study may [...]
1Jul1956 | R. J. Rushdoony | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: An Economic History of England: The 18th Century by T. S. Ashton
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc. 257 pp. $4.00. Despite the romanticism of folk tales, life was far from idyllic in the days when Jack-of-the-Beanstalk and his young contemporaries trudged along picturesque country lanes, leading the family cow or pigs to market. Conditions changed slowly in those times. Before 1700 life was pretty much the [...]
1Jul1956 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 0 comments | ContinuedWell Worth Reading
Federalized Education? There is a large and vocal group calling for federal aid to education. It may reasonably be presumed that the arguments advanced by this group as to why the local school should have a pipeline into the national treasury are the best arguments that could be devised while remaining within calling distance of [...]
1Jun1956 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued-
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