Other Schools of Thought
States, Cartels, and the Anarcho-Capitalist Opposition
If, for good reason, we generally distrust the concentrated power wielded by coercive monopolies, we ought to avoid at all costs placing more power in the state, the ultimate embodiment of monopoly.
Tax Cuts Are Only for the Powerful
Politicians tell us that tax cuts aren't necessary for economic growth. But when a politically-powerful company offers to move to town and hire people, the politicians fall all over themselves to offer a tax cut. Ordinary business owners, meanwhile, get no such offers.
War Guilt in the Middle East
The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or world-governmentalists, is that they tend to rest conten
Frank Meyer on the Communist Bogey-Man
Frank S. Meyer is by far the most intelligent, as well as the most libertarian-inclined, of the National Review stable of editors and staff.
Manuel Castells and the Decline of Twentieth-Century Sociology
This article reviews and assesses the trilogy Castells entitles The Information Age: Society Economy, and Culture. Despite the adulation and attention the books have drawn,
Review of Vienna and Chicago: Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free Market Economics by Mark Skousen
For those who know little or nothing about the subject the book is likely to be informative but also to be a source of misinformation, particularly for those who know something about one school
Review of Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
For the usual readers of free market books, Naked Economics promises exciting reading. Charles Wheelan, an American correspondent of London’s Economist
Murray Rothbard’s Adam Smith
This article argues that Murray Rothbard does indeed have scathing criticisms of Adam Smith in Rothbard's recent work on the history of economic thought.
Review of Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development, and Current State, by Brian Snowdon and Howard R. Vane
The book distinguishes seven different schools of macroeconomic thought: orthodox Keynesianism, orthodox monetarism, the New Classical School, real business cycle theory, new Keynesianism, Post Keynesianism, and the Austrian School.