Critical Review

Winter–Spring 1998 (Vol.12 Nos.1–2)

Review Essays

• Man, Society, and the Failure of Politics; Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy by William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons.   Review essay by Leif Lewin.

• Unforeseen Consequences and Pathological Self-Reinforcement: Why Cities Decline; Scarcity by Design by Peter Salins and Gerald Milner; The Federal Government and Urban Housing by R. Allen Hays.   Review essay by Anthony Woodlief.

• A Capitalist Revolution in Latin America?; The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America by Paul Craig Roberts and Karen Lafollette.   Review essay by Alvaro Vargas Llosa

• The State and Labor in Modern America; The State and Labor in Modern America by Melvyn Dubofsky.   Review essay by Lowell Gallaway and Richard Vedder.

• It Doesn’t Work; Out of Work: Unemployment and Government In Twentieth-Century America by Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway.   Review essay by J. Bradford De Long.

• Murray Rothbard’s Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought; Economic Thought before Adam Smith by Murray N. Rothbard; Classical Economics by Murray N. Rothbard.   Review essay by Warren J. Samuels.

 

Essay

• Postwar Economic Stabilization: A Stylized Half-Truth , by Werner Troesken.

 

Exchanges

• Keynes and Capitalism One More Time: A Further Reply To Hill , by Steven Horwitz.

• An Ultra-Keynesian Strikes Back: Rejoinder To Horwitz , by Greg Hill.

• The Faults of Formalism and the Magic of Markets , by Daniel M. Hausman.

• The Self-Deception of Economics , by Robert Heilbroner.

• Boettke’s Austrian Critique of Mainstream Economics: An Empiricist’s Response , by Thomas Mayer.

• Formalism and Contemporary Economics: A Reply To Hausman, Heilbroner, and Mayer , by Peter J. Boettke.

• On Civil Republicanism: Reply To Xenos and Yack , by Maurizio Viroli.

• Questioning Patriotism: Rejoinder To Viroli , by Nicholas Xenos.

• Can Patriotism Save Us From Nationalism? Rejoinder To Viroli , by Bernard Yack.