Non-Fiction Reviews

“Human Action” Review of Huebert’s Libertarianism Today

by Stephan Kinsella October 1, 2010

The site “Human Action” has a nice review by “freeman” of Huebert’s Libertarianism Today, pasted below (mine was here: The Best Introduction to Libertarianism Ever). Libertarianism Today by Jacob H. Huebert (2010 Praeger) 255 page paperback; $25.00 Buy this book It is not easy to strike a balance between being informative and entertaining, covering all the relevant [...]

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eBook: Fifty Economic Fallacies Exposed

by Akiva September 29, 2010

Understanding basic economics is crucial for all libertarians.  No other field offers as clear and irrefutable a case for liberty.  Indeed, statism draws much of its support from the public’s flawed understanding of economics.  Even libertarians are occasionally led astray by flawed economic reasoning.  A friend recently brought a book designed to combat such flaws [...]

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Therapeutic Market Nihilism

by Isaac Bergman September 28, 2010

Over this past summer I read William M. Johnston’s ‘The Austrian Mind‘. This scholarly work amply demonstrates Johnston’s vast erudition in the intellectual history of the Austrian-Hungarian empire during the Victorian era, or better yet, the Franz-Josephian era. I wanted to highlight  a comparison that Johnston draws between the attitudes of that era’s medical establishments focus [...]

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Triangulating Peace? Or, Three Foundations for Oppression?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 17, 2010

[The following is a revised version of a reaction paper I wrote for a graduate seminar in international conflict back in 2005.] In Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations, Bruce Russet and John Oneal mount the most thorough defense of the democratic peace thesis I have yet seen. Indeed, they go beyond the democratic [...]

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The Best Introduction to Libertarianism Ever

by Stephan Kinsella July 16, 2010

I am not exaggerating: this is what Jacob Huebert’s just-published book Libertarianism Today is. I’ve been a libertarian for over 25 years, and have read a lot of libertarian books. I am sure I was one of Laissez Faire Books‘s biggest customers in its heyday in the 80s and 90s. Among introductions to libertarianism I’ve [...]

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How wild was the “Wild West”, in fact?

by Juan Fernando Carpio April 7, 2010

The less government there is, the more peaceful and prosperous a territory can be with respect to its own cultural potential.

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