The Distance from Chicago to Vienna Mises Review 4, No. 1 (Spring 1998) “AUSTRIAN AND NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS: ANY GAINS FROM TRADE?” Sherwin Rosen “AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS, NEOCLASSICISM, AND THE MARKET TEST” Leland B. Yeager Journal of Economic Perspectives 11, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 139-65 You can lead a neoclassical to Austrian waters, but you can’t
Subjective Values, Objective World Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) THE FOUNDATIONS OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS FROM MENGER TO MISES: A CRITICO-HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE OF SUBJECTIVISM Allen Oakley Edward Elgar, 1997, x + 258 pgs. Have another look at that subtitle. It suggests that readers of Foundations of Austrian Economics are in for a long
The Tropes of Truth Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) RELATIVISM: FEET FIRMLY PLANTED IN MID-AIR Francis J. Beckwith and Gregory Koukl Baker Books, 1998, 189 pgs. Part of the fun of studying philosophy is that it is a very difficult, technical subject. If you know the meaning of “rigid designator,” the “inscrutability of reference,” and the
Tilting at the Regime Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) THE END OF DEMOCRACY? THE JUDICIAL USURPATION OF POLITICS Richard John Neuhaus, et al. Spence Publishing, 1997, xiii + 289 pgs . In November 1996, the journal First Things published a symposium that sharply criticized recent federal court decisions on abortion, euthanasia, and homosexual
The Hegemonic Imperative Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: AMERICAN PRIMACY AND ITS GEOSTRATEGIC IMPERATIVES Zbigniew Brzezinski Basic Books, 1997, xiv + 223 pgs. Professor Brzezinski displays in this book an inordinate fondness for intellectual games. A minor and forgivable weakness, you might think. But unfortunately
Why monoculturalism? Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) LIBERAL RACISM Jim Sleeper Penguin Books, [1997] 1998, 195 pgs. This, I am afraid, is an almost perfectly useless book. Its main thesis may be stated quite simply. White liberals have abandoned the true goals of the civil rights movement--joint participation by whites and blacks in a
The Philosopher and the IQ Debate Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) WHY RACE MATTERS: RACE DIFFERENCES AND WHAT THEY MEAN Michael Levin Praeger, 1997, xi + 415 pgs. Michael Levin has gotten himself into enormous trouble with his fellow philosophers by adhering to a standard maxim in the philosophy of science. Levin’s trouble starts when he
More Equal Than Others Mises Review 4, No. 4 (Winter 1998) IS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION DOOMED? Ronald Dworkin The New York Review of Books XLV, No. 17, (November 5, 1998): 56–61 Conservatives, at least since the “Impeach Earl Warren” days, have viewed the Supreme Court with less than full enthusiasm. Are we too critical? Surely the Court cannot have
Rethinking Intervention Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999) REWARDING WORK: HOW TO RESTORE SELF-SUPPORT TO FREE ENTERPRISE Edmund S. Phelps Harvard University Press, 1997, ix + 198 pgs. Edmund S. Phelps is no right-wing extremist. Quite the contrary, he stands at the center of Keynesian orthodoxy in economics. Often termed an “economist’s
The Return of Lord Robbins Mises Review 5, No. 3 (Fall 1999) A HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT: THE LSE LECTURES Lionel Robbins Edited by Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels Princeton University Press, 1998, xxviii + 359 pgs. Austrians have sometimes been very hard on Lord Robbins. He at one time embraced the views of Mises and Hayek; and in The
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