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[ The Inflation Crisis, and How to Resolve It • By Henry Hazlitt • Ludwig von Mises Institute, [1978] 2009 • 191 pages; and Beyond Boom and Crash • By Robert L. Heilbroner • W.W. Norton, 1987 • 111 pages; and Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises • By Charles P. Kindleberger • Basic Books, 1987 • 320 pages.]   “If this were a

[ Can Government Go Bankrupt? • By Richard Rose and Guy Peters • Basic Books, 1978 • 283 pages.] We have come to expect from Basic Books a product unique in trade-book publishing: acute intelligence and thorough scholarship combined with readability. Can Government Go Bankrupt? can only devalue Basic’s reputation. It is, in the first place, a

[ Herbert Hoover: A Public Life • By David Burner • Knopf, 1979 • 433 pages]   David Burner’s new biography of Hoover is unquestionably the best and most thorough to date.” Americans who grew up before World War II remember Herbert Clark Hoover as the most reviled man in public life. Whenever any of the New Deal’s court historians or writers

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .]   François du Noyer, sieur de Saint-Martin, had a dream. It was a grandiose vision of the future. All around him, in the

“In bypassing Congress in this way, the American public has shown that it realizes only too well that Congress has been the major culprit in budget deficits.” [From the Libertarian Review , May 1979, Rothbard provides a well-rounded discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of a balanced-budget amendment and assesses the significance of the

[ Libertarian Review , 1979] Ever since Richard Nixon cunningly defused the student antiwar rebellion by getting rid of the draft, we have tended to become complacent and to assume that the draft was gone forever. But we forgot some important things. We forgot that the accursed draft machinery — the Selective Service System itself — was still in

[ Memoirs • By Ludwig von Mises • Mises Institute, 2009 • 146 pages. This review originally appeared in the Libertarian Review , April 1978.]   When Ludwig von Mises was in his hale and hearty 70s, those of us who were privileged to attend his graduate seminar at New York University used to gather with him after class for a snack at a local

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .]   The 1620s to the 1650s were decades of rule in France by two very secular cardinals. The first was the stern,

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith .] Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–83) was no scholar or theorist, but he knew with firm conviction what ideas he liked, and these were the mercantilist notions that had filled the air in France and the rest of Europe

[This article is excerpted from An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought , vol. 1, Economic Thought Before Adam Smith . An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download .]   For his part, Louis XIV had no trouble fitting the absolutist role. Even more than Colbert , he totally identified his