Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 2 (Summer 2017) Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economic Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations. One can be sure, then, that his new comprehensive book, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan , reflects an Establishment point of view. As
Will Wilkinson, the vice president for policy at the Niskanen Center, does not like the tax bill just passed by Congress. Writing in The New York Times , he finds the legislation “notably generous to corporations, high earners, inheritors of large estates and the owners of private jets.” Wilkinson has discovered a surprising source for the
Will Wilkinson, the vice president for policy at the Niskanen Center, does not like the tax bill just passed by Congress. Writing in The New York Times , he finds the legislation “notably generous to corporations, high earners, inheritors of large estates and the owners of private jets.” Wilkinson has discovered a surprising source for the
Why Liberalism Failed . By Patrick J. Deneen. Yale University Press, 2018. Xix + 225 pages. Patrick Deneen’s thoughtful book poses a challenge to libertarians. Deneen, a political theorist who teaches at Notre Dame, has with great force identified a fundamental tendency of our times. Destruction of traditional attachments to family, local
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century , Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin, eds. Cato Institute, 2017 When Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century was published in 2015, it suffered an unexpected fate for a treatise of 700 pages, filled with statistics and equations. It became a bestseller. Proclaimed a
There is a central theme in Patrick Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed which I failed to note in my review of it. Deenen has a radical view of the role of intellectuals in modern history. He says, “The foundations of liberalism were laid by a series of thinkers whose central aim was to disassemble what they concluded were irrational religious and
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 20, no. 3 (Fall 2017) The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe Joseph E. Stiglitz W.W. Norton, 2016 As Joseph Stiglitz sees matters, the euro suffers from a fatal flaw. The euro is the currency of 19 European countries; and common money blocks efforts of nations that, according to
The Hell o Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy by Stephen M. Walt Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2018 xii + 384 pages Stephen Walt has put himself in a difficult position. He is a Professor of International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and the author of studies, most notably The
Powerline reports the results of a survey of ideological bias in philosophy. “T he more right-leaning the participant, the more hostility they reported personally experiencing from colleagues, and, overall, the more left-leaning the participant, the less hostility they reported personally experiencing.” The hostility was no mere matter of dislike
F.H. Buckley, a Canadian lawyer, political philosopher, and economist who now teaches at the Scalia School of Law at George Mason University, has written a book that challenges conventional wisdom and is all the better for that. America, he tells us, is so bitterly divided that we should consider breaking it up into several separate countries. To
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