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A Reviewers Notebook
I have just been reading a number of college textbooks on economics. They contain the standard chapters on monopoly, oligopoly, “monopolistic competition,” “imperfect competition,” “workable competition,” and “administered” prices. And they flash the usual warning signals: let the customer beware of price gouging, of submitting docilely to “all the traffic will bear.” This sort of [...]
1Jun1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
The late Russell Davenport was an exciting personality. His The Dignity of Man (New York: Harper. 338 pp. $4.00) asks all the right questions even when it fumbles in darkness for the answers. An individualist, Davenport went against the grain of his times from his college days to the very hour of his all-too-early death. [...]
1May1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: A History of the Monroe Doctrine by Dexter Perkins and Americas Rise to World Power, 1898-1954 by Foster Rhea Dulles
Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 469 pp. $5.00. (The New American Nation Series) New York: Harper and Brothers. 314 pp. $5.00. The basic international and diplomatic policy of the United States—which kept us out of disastrous foreign wars and other expensive entanglements abroad for over a hundred years—is usually assumed to date from Washington’s Farewell [...]
1May1956 | Harry Elmer Barnes | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Must You Conform? by Robert Lindner
New York: Rinehart. 210 pp. $3.00. This is another blast of the Trumpet of Revolt. It comes from that “peculiar” called psychotherapy. I use the word “peculiar” in its precise medieval Canon Law meaning, as describing a “jurisdiction proper to itself.” Psychotherapy, and indeed all physicianship, today is assuming the empty seat of mental authority, [...]
1May1956 | Gerald Heard | 2 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
In their Monopoly in America: The Government as Promoter (New York: Macmillan. 221 pp. $3.50), Walter Adams and Horace M. Gray have hit upon a profound truth—that it is the State itself which establishes and fosters the conditions making for monopoly. Unfortunately these two crusading professors—Dr. Adams teaches economics at Michigan State University while Dr. [...]
1Apr1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: MacArthurHis Rendezvous with History by Major Gen. Courtney Whitney
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 547 pages. $6.75. When all of the participants in the strange politico-military drama identified by the name of General MacArthur shall have passed from the scene, and the passions it has engendered will have followed them to the grave, we may get to the bottom of the plot. It will [...]
1Apr1956 | Frank Chodorov | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Christian as Citizen by John C. Bennettook
New York: Association Press. 93 pages. $1.25. John C. Bennett is Dean of New York’s Union Theological Seminary and one of the leaders of the movement to apply Gospel precepts to the ordering of society by means of a politically planned economy. This notion, popularly known as the Social Gospel, finds expression through the social [...]
1Apr1956 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
“Poor Fritz,” said Harold Laski in 1946 of Friedrich A. Hayek, who had recently published The Road to Serfdom, “poor Fritz. He’s just a 1906 liberal.” But the “1906 liberal,” who cared more for sound principle than he did for contemporary fashions, is riding considerably higher today than the late Harold Laski. Although socialism, in [...]
1Mar1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Why Teachers Cant TeachA Case History by Joan Dunn
New York: David McKay Co. Inc., 1955. 224 pp. $3.00. It was John Dewey’s dream that “the school itself shall be made a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons.” For the past 30 years or so, “public” education has been shaped by this philosophy [...]
1Mar1956 | E. Victor Milione | 0 comments | ContinuedNew York: David McKay Co. Inc., 1955. 224 pp. $3.00.
The Right to Work: Each job in modern American industry is created by the investment of anywhere between $7,000 and a $100,000 in tools and equipment. The man who works, whether he works at a desk or a bench, on an assembly line or at a blast furnace, does not as a rule own the [...]
1Mar1956 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
Morris L. Ernst, the well-known civil liberties lawyer, has written a bland and sunny-tempered book in Utopia: 1976 (305 pp., New York: Rinehart, $3.50). A “glandular optimist,” as he describes himself, Mr. Ernst looks forward to 20 years of practically unmitigated progress in material invention, economic expansion, and the productive and re-creative uses of leisure. [...]
1Feb1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedWell Worth Reading
Along the Paperback Front: The Henry Regnery Company of Chicago has a line of paperbacks bearing the label, Gateway Editions. Among other items, it contains a modern translation of Machiavelli’s “The Prince.” This sixteenth century work remains a classic statement of the nature of stark political power; political power per se, stripped of the religious, [...]
1Feb1956 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
The modern age might be described as the age of the secondary objective. Bureaus are set up in national capitals to do specific jobs, but they remain on the scene to preserve themselves as bureaus. The League of Nations was established to save the peace, but it was always afraid to make a real attempt [...]
1Jan1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: How to Win a Conference by William D. Ellis and Frank Siedel
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 214 pp. $3.95 Nearly everyone is willing to let the other fellow be the good loser. This is true on the football field, but it is just as true around the conference table. The old idea that a conference is an intellectual love feast belongs to another era. In this Age [...]
1Jan1956 | F. A. Opitz | 0 comments | ContinuedWell Worth Reading
Reader’s Choice: The serious journal of ideas, such as the old North American Review, or the more recent Atlantic under Sedgwick, cannot now find a reading public interested enough to support it. But before we write off the serious reader as an extinct species, consider the phenomena of the paperbacks. At a price comparable to [...]
1Jan1956 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | Continued-
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