Liberating the Land: The Case for Private Land-Use Planning
by Mark Pennington (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2002); 114 pages; $15.
Over the last 20 years there have been a variety of strong reactions against the idea of government planning. But ...
In 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared, “I am perfectly willing to mislead and tell lies if it will help win the war.” Now in wartime it certainly may be necessary for a general or a commander in chief to ...
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
by Thomas DiLorenzo (Roseville, Calf.; Prima Publishing, 2002); 333 pages; $24.95.
In his books Race and Economics (1975) and Markets and Minorities (1981), free-market economist Thomas ...
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA gained international recognition in 1989 when he published an article in The National Interest entitled “The End of Man.” He offered a “Hegelian” conception of the evolution and direction of human history. In short, he argued that ...
After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
by Paul Edward Gottfried (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001); 185 pages; $35.
IN THE 1960s, Friedrich A. Hayek published a monograph entitled The Confusion of Language in Political Thought. He emphasized that ...
A MAN IS WALKING through the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland, late one night. Suddenly there is an arm around his throat and he is pulled into a dark alley. A gun is then put to his head and ...
Communism: A History
by Richard Pipes (New York: The Modern Library, 2001); 175 pages; $19.95.
IT SEEMS HARD TO BELIEVE that it is already more than 10 years since the collapse and disappearance of the Soviet Union in December 1991. It ...
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A FUNDAMENTAL REVOLUTION IN IDEAS began to emerge in the 18th century against the premises and policies of mercantilism. These ideas undermined the rationales for government regulation and control of the economic affairs of ...
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
by William Easterly (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2002); 342 pages; $29.95.
POVERTY, UNFORTUNATELY, is the natural condition of man. And through most of his time on earth, as ...
LIMITING THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT has been one of the leading struggles in the history of mankind. Through most of man’s time on earth, governments have presumed to rule, command, order, and threaten multitudes of human beings — to ...
