The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, no. 2 (Summer 2018). For the full issue, click here . [ The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 ., Hope Jahren, ed., Wilmington, Mass.: Mariner Books, 2017, 352 pp.] The Earth’s climate is extraordinarily complex. Unlike dinosaur fossils or organic chemistry or primate behavior, climate is
Confucian Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi, Business Ethics, and Economic Development in Meiji Japan by John H. Sagers Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, xvi + 245 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp) is an associate professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 22, no. 1 (Spring 2019), for
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 Hope Jahren, ed. Wilmington, Mass.: Mariner Books, 2017, 352 pp. Jason Morgan (jmorgan@reitaku-u.ac.jp) is an assistant professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan. Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, no. 2 (Summer 2018) full issue, click here . The Earth’s climate is extraordinarily
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 297–301 [ Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life by Edward P. Stringham] Leave people alone, and they will figure things out. This simple thesis, the heart of Edward Stringham’s Private Governance , is the touchstone for a myriad of examples from history and the
For months before the Brexit referendum on June 23rd, entire industries were hard at work attempting to predict how the UK electorate would vote. Polling companies canvassed neighborhoods, made phone calls, sent surveys by e-mail, monitored websites, and spoke with people on busy city streets, in the process assembling a trove of data which the
Assuming state legislatures find the political will to defund courses on pornography , and the Congress ends the student-loan crony capitalism bonanza , what would a world of privatized universities look like? It could look very good, it turns out. First of all, without subsidization, very few students are likely to pay out of their own pockets
ABSTRACT: John Hasnas (2008) has famously argued that anarchy is obvious and everywhere. It is less well known, however, that Hasnas also argues that anarchy must be achieved gradually. But how can this work? In this paper, I show that directly confronting state power will never produce viable anarchy (or minarchy). Using the example of Soviet
The Origin of the Prolonged Economic Stagnation in Contemporary Japan: The Factitious Deflation and Meltdown of the Japanese Firm as an Entity by Masayuki Otaki Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge, 2016 x + 136 pp. Abstract: While Otaki has seen what the Japanese economic disease is, he has failed to understand what fundamentally causes it. Somehow,
[Adapted from “ A Practical Approach to Legal-Pluralist Anarchism: Eugen Ehrlich, Evgeny Pashukanis, and Meaningful Freedom through Incremental Jurisprudential Change “ from the Journal of Libertarian Studies .] Born into a deracinated Jewish family in Czernowitz in the Austria-Hungarian province of Bukovina, Eugen Ehrlich did his habilitation on
[Vladimir Bukovsky, tr. Alyona Kojevnikov, Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity (Ninth of November Press, 2019), 707 pages.] Few remember him today, for reasons that should unsettle us all, but Vladimir Bukovsky was a hero from a dark age whose example confirms Mises’s motto , taken from the Aeneid : “Do not give in to evil,
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