Why So Much Hate for the Free Market?
Given the manifest superiority of the free market, why do so many intellectuals reject it?
Book Reviews
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Why So Much Hate for the Free Market?
The Power of Capitalism: A Journey through Recent History across Five Continents By Rainer Zitelmann LID Publishing, 2018 xiv + 233 pages Dr. Rainer Zitelmann is best known to the scholarly world for his outstanding study of Adolf Hitler’s...
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Clarence Darrow vs. the State
“Force is wrong,” Darrow wrote. “A bayonet in the hand of one man is no better than in the hand of another. It is the bayonet that is evil.”
The Science of Evil: A Personal Review of Political Ponerology
The literary accounts and studies of the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and Nazi Germany necessarily failed to grasp the root of the problem—namely, the psychopathological dimension of the inception and development of pathocracy.
The Roman Empire Wasn’t “Civilization.” It Was Violence.
Kulikowski's two-volume history of Rome offers many lessons in what was at the center of the empire. What was Rome? It was violence—political violence as an organizing principle.
Knowledge in the Service of a Political Agenda is Biased
Graeber and Wengrow are right to question stage theories of history, but they pass by in silence the laws of economics that show the necessity of the free market for a complex modern society.
Knowledge in the Service of a Political Agenda is Biased
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity By David Graeber and David Wengrow Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 Xii + 692 pages The Dawn of Everything, which has already attracted much scholarly attention and is a best seller as well...
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George Hearst: Entrepreneur in the Mises Mold
The reality is the primary quality of an entrepreneur can’t be taught: the stomach to risk everything and keep wanting more.
George Hearst: Entrepreneur in the Mises Mold
The reality is the primary quality of an entrepreneur can’t be taught: the stomach to risk everything and keep wanting more.
Review: Understanding Money Mechanics
Bob Murphy provides the “intelligent layperson a concise yet comprehensive overview of the theory, history, and practice of money and banking, with a focus on the United States.”
