![]() ![]() Jonathan Adler at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog has kept one running list of the book’s flaws. Munger’s review essay is remarkable in that it is utterly devastating to MacLean’s thesis without being an exhaustive inventory of her mistakes. ![]() She contacted none of them, nor did she contact Bruce Caldwell at Duke’s Center for the History of Political Economy. The current president of the Public Choice Society Georg Vanberg is a Duke political scientist. ![]() One of them (Geoffrey Brennan) was a prominent Buchanan coauthor, and the other (Munger himself) has written and spoken extensively on Buchanan. Duke’s political science department is home to two past presidents of the Public Choice Society. If you're going to read one review you should read her Duke colleague Michael Munger's long review essay for the Independent Institute. Why? I think the most important reason is that she failed to make use of some of the most obvious resources at her disposal. ![]()
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