All Articles tagged history

• Book Reviews
  November 15, 2023 CDT
  Book Review: The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism
  Krzysztof Turowski

  Krzysztof Turowski reviews Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi's intellectual history of libertarianism, finding it valuable but not without serious sins of commission and omission.

• Book Reviews
  February 23, 2023 CDT
  Book Review: Economic Episodes in American History, 2nd ed.
  Patrick Newman

  Patrick Newman reviews Schug, Wood, Ferrarini, and Niederjohn’s vital response to the anti-capitalistic teaching in modern high school history classrooms.

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• Articles
  September 30, 2021 CDT
  The Long Rehabilitation of Frank Fetter
  Matthew McCaffrey

  On the rise, decline, and rise again of one of the great American economic theorists, Frank Fetter, as well as the Austrian school itself and its rise, decline, and renaissance.

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• Book Reviews
  September 28, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas”
  Samuel Bostaph

  Sam Bostaph's review of Janek Wasserman's recent book shows that while it contains an interesting social history of Austrian economics, it misconstrues key ideas and ends with needless ad hominem.

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• Book Reviews
  May 20, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation”
  Patrick Newman

  Patrick Newman reviews Sarah Quinn's "American Bonds," a historical overview of US credit markets that unfortunately fails to seriously assess whether the government's intervention was desirable.

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• Remembering
  May 20, 2020 CDT
  Remembering Oskar Morganstern
  Richard Ebeling

  Richard Ebeling remembers economist Oskar Morgenstern, co-developer of modern game theory who studied with Austrian economists Friedrich von Wieser and Hans Mayer and was once an assistant to Friedrich Hayek.

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• Book Reviews
  May 20, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society”
  David Gordon

  David Gordon reviews Binyamin Appelbaum's "The Economists' Hour," in which Applebaum argues that manipulable consumers are competent to select wise leaders, and blames the market for the failures of government.

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• Articles
  March 21, 2020 CDT
  Rothbard on the Economics of Slavery
  Mark Thornton

  Published here for the first time is Rothbard's note on the economics of antebellum slavery. Mark Thornton comments on the paper, which criticizes the method of the New Economic History.

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• Book Reviews
  March 21, 2020 CDT
  Book Review: “The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas”
  David Gordon

  David Gordon reviews Janek Wasserman's "The Marginal Revolutionaries" and finds some concerning errors and misunderstandings.

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• Articles
  September 24, 2019 CDT
  Ludwig von Mises, Sociology, and Metatheory
  Christian Robitaille

  Can sociology be integrated into Mises's epistemological distinction between theory and history? What can sociology accomplish as a historical discipline?

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