Richard M. Ebeling — Book Reviews

• Gulag: A History
  by Anne Applebaum (September 2003)
  
  
• Defend America First
  by Garet Garrett (August 2003)
  
  
• To Destroy a City
  by Hermann Knell (July 2003)
  
  
• The Mind and the Market
  by Jerry Z. Muller (June 2003)
  
  
• Bad Neighbor Policy
  by Ted Galen Carpenter (May 2003)
  
  
• Economic Freedom and Development: An Essay about Property Rights, Competition, and Prosperity
  by Wolfgang Kasper (April 2003)
  
  
• War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
  by Chris Hedges (March 2003)
  
  
• Creative Destruction
  by Tyler Cowen (February 2003)
  
  
• Misguided Virtue: False Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility
  by David Henderson (January 2003)
  
  
• Rethinking the Great Depression
  by Gene Smiley (December 2002)
  
  
• Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School
  by Gene Callahan (November 2002)
  
  
• Should We Have Faith in Central Banks?
  by Otmar Issing (October 2002)
  
  
• Liberating the Land: The Case for Private Land-Use Planning
  by Mark Pennington (Sepember 2002)
  
  
• The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
  by Thomas DiLorenzo (August 2002)
  
  
• After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Management
  by Paul Edward Gottfried (July 2002)
  
  
• Communism: A History
  by Richard Pipes (June 2002)
  
  
• The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures in the Tropics
  by William Easterly (May 2002)
  
  
• Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism
  by Brink Lindsey (April 2002)
  
  
• Wilhelm Röpke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist
  by John Zmirak (March 2002)
  
  
• The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization
  by Tomas Larsson (February 2002)
  
  
• Fool’s Errands: America’s Recent Encounters with Nation Building
  by Gary T. Dempsey with Roger W. Fontain (January 2002)
  
  
• Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics
  by Israel M. Kirzner (December 2001)
  
  
• Money and the Market: Essays on Free Banking
  by Kevin Dowd (November 2001)
  
  
• In Defense of Free Capital Markets: The Case against a New International Financial Architecture
  by David F. DeRosa (September 2001)
  
  
• The New Dealers’ War: F.D.R. and the War within World War II
  by Thomas Fleming (August 2001)
  
  
• The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers
  by Mark Skousen (July 2001)
  
  
• Regulation without the State ... The Debate Continues
  by John Blundell and Colin Robinson (June 2001)
  
  
• Government: Whose Obedient Servant? A Primer in Public Choice
  by Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, and Gordon L. Brady (May 2001)
  
  
• Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy
  by Thomas Sowell (April 2001)
  
  
• Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism
  edited by Ian Vasquez (March 2001)
  
  
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
  by Hernando de Soto (February 2001)
  
  
• Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
  by James Bovard (January 2001)
  
  
• The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century
  by A. James Gregor (December 2000)
  
  
• When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
  by Charles Adams (November 2000)
  
  
• The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
  by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton (October 2000)
  
  
• Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
  by Mancur Olson (September 2000)
  
  
• From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
  by Peter Bauer (August 2000)
  
  
• Trust on Trial: How the Microsoft Case Is Reframing the Rules of Competition
  by Richard B. McKenzie (July 2000)
  
  
• 15 Great Austrian Economists
  edited by Randall G. Holcombe (June 2000)
  
  
• The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State
  by John Torpey (May 2000)
  
  
• Reflections on a Ravaged Century
  by Robert Conquest (April 2000)
  
  
• Business Ethics
  by Norman Barry (March 2000)
  
  
• The End of Privacy: Personal Rights in the Surveillance Society
  by Charles J. Sykes (February 2000)
  
  
• The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
  by Stephane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, and Jean-Louis Margolin (January 2000)
  
  
• The Quest for Cosmic Justice
  by Thomas Sowell (December 1999)
  
  
• Patterns in the Dark: Understanding Risk and Financial Crisis with Complexity Theory
  by Edgar E. Peters (November 1999)
  
  
• What Do Economists Contribute?
  edited by Daniel B. Klein (October 1999)
  
  
• Property and Freedom
  by Richard Pipes (September 1999)
  
  
• The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
  by François Furet (August 1999)
  
  
• Hayek: A Commemorative Album
  compiled by John Raybould (July 1999)
  
  
• Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
  by James Bovard (June 1999)
  
  
• The Future and Its Enemies
  by Virginia Postrel (May 1999)
  
  
• The Roosevelt Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition
  by John T. Flynn (April 1999)
  
  
• Is There a Third Way?
  by Michael Novak (March 1999)
  
  
• Say’s Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How Macroeconomic Theory Lost Its Way
  by Steven Kates (February 1999)
  
  
• Problemas Economicos de Mexico
  by Ludwig von Mises (January 1999)
  
  
• The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages
  by Tom Bethell (December 1998)
  
  
• Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States,
  1939–44
  by Thomas E. Mahl (November 1998)
  
  
• In Praise of Commercial Culture
  by Tyler Cowen (October 1998)
  
  
• Free-Market Feminism
  by David Conway (September 1998)
  
  
• Collected Works of Edwin Cannan
  edited by Alan Ebenstein (August 1998)
  
  
• Money and the Nation State
  edited by Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake Jr. (July 1998)
  
  
• Central Banking in Theory and Practice
  by Alan S. Blinder (June 1998)
  
  
• J.B. Say: An Economist in Troubled Times, writings translated and selected by R.R. Palmer (May 1998)
  
  
• The Logic of Action, Volume 1: Method, Money and the Austrian School
  by Murray N. Rothbard (April 1998)
  
  
• How Markets Work: Disequilibrium, Entrepreneurship and Discovery
  by Israel Kizner (March 1998)
  
  
• Interventionism: An Economic Analysis
  by Ludwig von Mises (February 1998)
  
  
• Socialism and War: Essays, Documents, Reviews, The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, vol. 10
  edited by Bruce Caldwell (January 1998)
  
  
• Renaissance: The Rebirth of Liberty in the Heart of Europe
  by Václav Klaus (December 1997)
  
  
• Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence
  by R.J. Rummel (November 1997)
  
  
• Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study
  by Robert J. Barro (October 1997)
  
  
• How Nations Grow Rich: The Case for Free Trade
  by Melvin Krauss (September 1997)
  
  
• The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
  by Paul Craig Roberts and Karen Lafollette Araujo (August 1997)
  
  
• Dynamics of the Mixed Economy: Toward a Theory of Interventionism
  by Sanford Ikeda (July 1997)
  
  
• Hungry Ghosts: Mao’s Secret Famine
  by Jasper Becker (June 1997)
  
  
• The End of Welfare: Fighting Poverty in the Civil Society
  by Michael Tanner (May 1997)
  
  
• Critique of Interventionism
  by Ludwig Von Mises (April 1997)
  
  
• Libertarianism: A Primer
  by David Boaz (March 1997)
  
  
• Austrian Economics: An Anthology
  edited by Bettina Bien Greaves (February 1997)
  
  
• Red Flag over Hong Kong
  by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, David Newman, and Alvin Rabushka
  (January 1997)
  
  
• The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Vol. 10: Socialism and War: Essays, Documents, Reviews
  edited by Bruce Caldwell (January 1997)
  
  
• Alien Wars: The Soviet Union’s Aggressions against the World,
  1919 to 1989
  by Gen. Oleg Sarin and Col. Lev Dvoretsky (December 1996)
  
  
• The Corrosion of Charity
  by Robert Whelan (November 1996)
  
  
• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
  by Ludwig von Mises (October 1996)
  
  
• Why Government Doesn’t Work
  by Harry Browne (September 1996)
  
  
• The Road from Serfdom: The Economics and Political Consequences of the End of Communism
  by Robert Skidelsky (August 1996)
  
  
• Making Economic Sense
  by Murray N. Rothbard (July 1996)
  
  
• Classics in Austrian Economics: A Sampling in the History of a Tradition
  edited by Israel M. Kirzner (June 1996)
  
  
• The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy
  by Paul Craig Roberts & Lawrence M. Stratton (May 1996)
  
  
• Community without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform
  by David G. Green (April 1996)
  
  
• Forgotten Lessons: Selected Essays of John T. Flynn
  edited by Gregory P. Pavlik (March 1996)
  
  
• Austrian Economics for Investors: Ludwig von Mises Goes to Wall Street
  by Mark Skousen (February 1996)
  
  
• Shakedown: How the Government Screws You from A to Z
  by James Bovard (January 1996)
  
  
• The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
  by Thomas Sowell (December 1995)
  
  
• The Invasion of Japan: Alternative to the Bomb
  by John Ray Skates (November 1995)
  
  
• Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor
  by Edward L. Beach (October 1995)
  
  
• The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume 9: Contra Keynes and Cambridge, Essays and Correspondence
  edited by Bruce Caldwell (September 1995)
  
  
• Hard Bargain: How FDR Twisted Churchill’s Arm, Evaded the Law and Changed the Role of the American Presidency
  by Robert Shogan (August 1995)
  
  
• A Terrible Revenge: Ethnic Cleansing of the Eastern European Germans,1944–1950
  by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (July 1995)
  
  
• Days of Infamy: MacArthur, Roosevelt, Churchill — The Shocking Truth Revealed
  by John Costello (June 1995)
  
  
• Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals
  by Ernest Gellner (May 1995)
  
  
• Dead Right
  by David Frum (April 1995)
  
  
• The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology
  by Doug Bandow (March 1995)
  
  
• Dismantling Utopia: How Information Ended the Soviet Union
  by Scott Shane (February 1995)
  
  
• Race and Culture: A World View
  by Thomas Sowell (January 1995)
  
  
• Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons
  by Pu Ning (December 1994)
  
  
• Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberties
  by James Bovard (November 1994)
  
  
• Death by Government
  by R.J. Rummel (October 1994)
  
  
• Hayek on Hayek: An Autobiographical Dialogue
  by F.A. Hayek, edited by Stephen Kresge and Leif Wenar (September 1994)
  
  
• The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
  by Stefan Kühl (August 1994)
  
  
• Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas against the West
  by Stephen Koch (July 1994)
  
  
• Post-Communist Societies in Transition: A Social Market Perspective
  by John Gray (June 1994)
  
  
• Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare without Politics
  by David G. Green (May 1994)
  
  
• Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement
  by Justin Raimondo (April 1994)
  
  
• For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
  by Charles Adams (March 1994)
  
  
• Failure and Progress: The Bright Side of the Dismal Science
  by Dwight R. Lee and Richard B. McKenzie (February 1994)
  
  
• Grassroots Tyranny: The Limits of Federalism
  by Clint Bolick (January 1994)
  
  
• Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
  by David Remnick (December 1993)
  
  
• Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century
  edited by David Boaz and Edward H. Crane (November 1993)
  
  
• Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
  by Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway (October 1993)
  
  
• Mises: An Annotated Bibliography
  compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves and Robert W. McGee (September 1993)
  
• Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History
  edited by Donald N. McCloskey (August 1993)
  
  
• Prices & Knowledge: A Market-Process Perspective
  by Esteban F. Thomsen (July 1993)
  
  
• Hayek and the Keynesian Avalanche
  by Brian McCormick (June 1993)
  
  
• Welfare Economics and Externalities in an Open-Ended Universe: A Modern Austrian Perspective
  by Roy E. Cordato (May 1993)
  
  
• Russia’s Secret Rulers: How the Government and the Criminal Mafia Exercise Their Power
  by Lev Timofeyev (April 1993)
  
  
• Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel
  by Vladimir Tismaneanu (March 1993)
  
  
• A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character
  by Charles J. Sykes (February 1993)
  
  
• Laogai: The Chinese Gulag
  by Harry Wu (January 1993)
  
  
• Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope
  by Richard A. Epstein (December 1992)
  
  
• Forbidden Grounds: The Case against Employment Discrimination Laws
  by Peter Bauer (November 1992)
  
  
• The Development Frontier: Essays in Applied Economics
  by Peter Bauer (October 1992)
  
  
• Two Essays by Ludwig von Mises: Liberty and Property and Middle-of-the-Road Policy Leads to Socialism
  (September 1992)
  
  
• The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume 4: The Fortunes of Liberalism, Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom
  edited by W.W. Bartley and Stephen Kresge (August 1992)
  
  
• A Time for War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor
  by Robert Smith Thompson (July 1992)
  
  
• The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of Information
  by Jean-François Revel (June 1992)
  
  
• Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad,
  1965–1990
  by Paul Hollander (May 1992)
  
  
• Constitutional Economics
  by James M. Buchanan (April 1992)
  
  
• The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume 3: The Trend of Economic Thinking
  edited by W.W. Bartley and Stephen Kresge (March 1992)
  
  
• Monetarist Economics
  by Milton Friedman (February 1992)
  
  
• Economic Freedom
  by F.A. Hayek (January 1992)
  
  
• Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into
  World War II
  by James Rusbridger and Eric Nave (December 1991)
  
  
• Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?
  by Viktor Suvorov (November 1991)
  
  
• Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918–1939
  by Harriet Sergeant (October 1991)
  
  
• Economic Freedom and Interventionism: An Anthology of Articles and Essays
  by Ludwig von Mises (September 1991)
  
  
• Russia’s Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921–1929
  by Alan M. Ball (August 1991)
  
  
• The Hidden Nations: The People Challenge the Soviet Union
  by Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky (July 1991)
  
  
• Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History
  by Andrei Sinyavsky (June 1991)
  
  
• This Hemisphere of Liberty
  by Michael Novak (May 1991)
  
  
• Government: Whose Obedient Servant? A Primer in Public Choice
  by Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, and Gordon L. Brady (May 1991)
  
  
• Economics on Trial: Lies, Myths, and Realities
  by Mark Skousen (April 1991)
  
  
• Unfinished Business: A Civil Rights Strategy for America’s Third Century
  by Clint Bolick (March 1991)
  
  
• Capitalism
  by Arthur Seldon (February 1991)
  
  
• Free Market Morality: The Political Economy of the Austrian School
  by Alexander H. Shand (January 1991)
  
  
• The Ethics of Redistribution
  by Bertrand de Jouvenel (December 1990)
  
  
• Rock around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in the Soviet Union
  by Timothy W. Ryback (November 1990)
  
  
• Preferential Policies: An International Perspective
  by Thomas Sowell (October 1990)
  
  
• The Awakening of the Soviet Union
  by Geoffrey Hosking (September 1990)
  
  
• Tell the World: What Happened in China and Why
  by by Liu Binyan (August 1990)
  
  
• South Africa’s War against Capitalism
  by Walter E. Williams (July 1990)
  
  
• Free Persons and the Common Good
  by Michael Novak (March 1990)
  
  
• Discovery, Capitalism, and Distributive Justice
  by Israel M. Kirzner (February 1990)
  
  
• The New Realities: In Government and Politics/In Economics and Business/In Society and World View
  by Peter F. Drucker (January 1990)
  
  

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