Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism
by Brink Lindsey (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002); 336 pages; $29.95.
THE WORLD IS BECOMING increasingly smaller. Commodities, capital, and people move around the world with far greater ease ...
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BEFORE THE 19TH CENTURY, governments in the major European countries and their colonial empires around the world took it for granted that they had both the right and responsibility to control and direct the ...
Wilhelm Röpke: Swiss Localist, Global Economist
by John Zmirak (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2001); 229 pages; $24.95.
WITHOUT A DOUBT, Wilhelm Röpke was one of the leading free-market economists of the 20th century and one of the most influential thinkers in ...
THE SHOCKING AND tragic events of September 11, 2001, have affected not only the United States but the rest of the world as well. This impact, however, is not limited to an increased awareness ...
The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization
by Tomas Larsson (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2001); 164 pages; $18.95.
“Globalism” has become the new, fashionable catchword for a process that has been developing with increasing intensity for more than ...
IN THE FIRST ISSUE of Modern Age, a conservative journal of opinion, published in 1957, there appeared an article by the classical-liberal journalist and author Felix Morley on the question of whether America was still a republic ...
Fool’s Errands: America’s Recent Encounters with Nation Building
by Gary T. Dempsey with Roger W. Fontaine (Washington, D. C.: Cato Institute, 2001); 224 pages; $19.95
THE CONCEPT OF “nation building” became widely used in the 1960s as a growing number of ...
We are witnessing in America today the consequences from a weakened appreciation of the purposes and importance of this constitutional order under the emotional shock of a terrible and evil act on September 11, 2001. Our ...
IF ONLY FREEDOM HAD A PRICE, we would know what each individual thought it was worth. Each individual could express his own valuation and judgment of what he would pay to maintain or ...
Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics
by Israel M. Kirzner (Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2001); 226 pages; $24.95.
LUDWIG VON MISES was, without a doubt, one of the most important economists of the 20th century. Every textbook on comparative ...
