Misguided Virtue: False Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility
by David Henderson (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2002); 169 pages; $19.95.
In spite of the end of Sovietstyle communism, the introduction of more market-oriented policies in many previously socialist societies, and the ...
On September 17, 2002, the White House released a 31-page document entitled “The National Security Strategy of the United States of America.” It spells out the planned global agenda for the U.S. government for the foreseeable future. It is ...
Rethinking the Great Depression
by Gene Smiley (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002); 179 pages; $24.95.
The Great Depression of the early 1930s has left a deep and lasting mark on the United States. For many in the general public the Great ...
Before I accepted my present position as a professor of economics at Hillsdale College in 1988, I negotiated my salary with the academic dean responsible for hiring new faculty. At that time I was teaching at the University of ...
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Many have been surprised by the lack of resistance by the European Jews who were killed by the millions in the Nazi concentration and death camps during the Second World War. For the most ...
Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School
by Gene Callahan (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2002); 349 pages; $19.95.
Back in 1932 an economist named Broadus Mitchell wrote an introductory principles textbook entitled A Preface to Economics. When he ...
Every few years voices are heard heralding and warning of a “crisis of capitalism.” The 20th century saw an unending series of such voices of doom that the free market had shown its injustice towards and ...
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For millions of Americans the Second Amendment and its guarantee of the right of the individual to bear arms appears irrelevant and practically anachronistic. It seems a throwback to those earlier days of the ...
Should We Have Faith in Central Banks?
by Otmar Issing (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2002); 53 pages; $12.
One of the momentous events of the new century has been the establishment of a single, common currency for many of the ...
On the evening of June 6, 2002, President George W. Bush delivered a brief nationwide television address in which he called for the creation of a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security. The president stated that “America is leading ...
