Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics. By Michael J. Sandel. Harvard University Press, 2005. 292 pgs. Michael Sandel attained fame, and perhaps fortune as well, early in his academic career. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge University Press, 1982), his criticism of John Rawls’s Theory of Justice , established him as a
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State . By Charles Murray. The AEI Press, 2006. Xv + 214 pgs. Charles Murray, by his own account, should not have written In Our Hands . He identifies a genuine problem; but he himself shows that his plan to solve it is either useless or inferior to a better plan. Government programs spend billions of
[This article is a revised and expanded version of a talk given at the Mises Circle in Costa Mesa, California, on May 6, 2006, which you can listen to here .] America is today embroiled in a futile, costly, and immoral war. Domestically, deficit spending is out of control, and new revelations about telephone spying by the National Security
Introduction The German Historical School Franz Brentano Menger and Böhm-Bawerk Deductive Science Bibliographical Essay Bibliography Notes The Austrian School of economics arose in opposition to the German Historical School; and Carl Menger developed his methodological views in combat with the rival group. I thus wish first to discuss the
In a series of posts to an Internet discussion group several years ago, David Friedman severely criticized Murray Rothbard’s account of Adam Smith in his Economic Thought Before Adam Smith (Edward Elgar , 1995). These comments have enjoyed wide circulation, and various posters to the Mises Institute Blog have referred to them. For that reason, I
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