Book Reviews

Larson's principal targets are Friedman and Hayek, but Mises and Rothbard are not spared. For Larson, promarket economists aren't just wrong. They're bad people.

Cronyism: when the government passes policies to benefit special-interest politicians, bureaucrats, businesses, and other groups at the expense of the general public.

One of the darlings of the left's intellectual brotherhood gives us a look into the state of intellectual affairs therein. Piketty expounds "there is no universal law of economics: There is only a multiplicity of historical experiences and imperfect data.” Piketty is what Mises calls an "antieconomist."

Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016–2020 By Thomas Piketty Yale University Press, 2021 352 pages Thomas Piketty has written a useful book. Readers need no longer plough their way through his vast Capital in the Twenty-First...

Larson's principal targets are Friedman and Hayek, but Mises and Rothbard are not spared. For Larson, promarket economists aren't just wrong. They're bad people.

Audrey Kline reviews Stephen P. Halbrook's The Right to Bear Arms, tracing gun rights from medieval times to the present day.

Jason Morgan reviews Zachary Carter's new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes, finding it "an essential read" which, with admirable even-handedness, presents the Keynesian world to readers, warts and all.

Allen Mendenhall reviews Eric Graf's new book on Don Quijote, which advances the liberal tradition and adds to a slowly growing stock of libertarian literary criticism.

Inequality can exist and grow even if everyone is becoming better off—but some are becoming more better off than others. Should we care about this kind of inequality? 

Our aim ought not to be to make democracy “work better” but to use revelations of corruption as a tool to question altogether its value as a political and social system of organization.