Book Reviews – June 2007

• Hitlers Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
  
  by Goetz Aly Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  
• The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
  by Timothy P. Carney Reviewed by Sheldon Richman
  
• Income and Wealth
  by Alan Reynolds Reviewed by George C. Leef
  
• The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle What We Have Learned; How to Fix It
  by Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
  
• The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
  by Hugh Taylor Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
  

Your Money and Your Life: The Price of Universal Health Care

Although often recognized as sacred, human life has not been considered the top priority in the hierarchy of values. Human beings have willingly sacrificed life to preserve honor or virtue, to defend the faith or the nation, or to protect family or the family’s livelihood (property). Civilized nations have, however, generally recognized the right to [...]

Book Reviews – October 2003

The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I by Thomas Fleming Basic Books • 2003 • 543 pages • $30.00 Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Imagine how different the twentieth century might have been if Lenin and the Bolsheviks had never come to power in Russia in 1917 and had not set in motion all the cruel crimes that were [...]

Wilhelm Röpke: A Centenary Appreciation

On January 30, 1933, German president Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. One week later, on February 8, Wilhelm Röpke, a 32-year-old professor of economics at the University of Marburg, delivered a lecture in Frankfurt am Main with the title “End of an Era?” Röpke told his audience that Germany was in [...]

The Mont Pelerin Society’s 50th Anniversary

Greg Kaza serves in the Michigan House of Representatives (42nd District) and is also an adjunct professor at Northwood University. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, one of this century’s most important groups of free-market intellectuals. The world was a quite different place when 36 free-market thinkers [...]

Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973): A Prophet Without Honor in His Own Land

Mrs. Greaves, Resident Scholar at The Foundation for Economic Education, attended Professor Mises’ seminar at New York University for many years and knew both him and Mrs. Mises well. The remarks attributed to Professor Mises in direct quotation marks are based on his own writings, interviews, and notes taken at his seminar and lectures. An [...]