Thirty years ago, British economist William R. Lewis wrote a monograph for the Institute of Economic Affairs in London entitled Rome or Brussels...? His theme was the contrast between the original motives and purposes behind the establishment of the ...
Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
by James Bovard (St. Martin’s Press, 2000); 426 pages; $26.95.
WHEN THE HISTORY of the last decade of the 20th century is written sometime in ...
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In 1952 ,free-market economist Michael A. Heilperin delivered a lecture entitled “An Economist’s Views on International Organization.” He told his audience,
It is an elementary, but often forgotten, knowledge that policies of national governments ...
The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century
by A. James Gregor (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000); 240 pages; $30.
IN 1947, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises published a short book entitled Planned Chaos. He analyzed ...
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In this Post–Cold War epoch the world is desperately searching for international order, global peace, and general economic prosperity. The great debate going on around the world is whether these desired goals can be ...
When in the Course of Human Events: Arguing the Case for Southern Secession
by Charles Adams (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); 255 pages; $24.95.
IN HER 1924 BOOK Free Trade and Peace in the Nineteenth Century, Helen Bosanquet pointed out,
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Insight Magazine: During the last eight years, the American people have witnessed some of the worst political scandals and episodes of presidential ...
The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice
by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton (Roseville, Calif.: Prima Publishing, 2000); 240 pages; $24.95.
IT OFTEN SEEMS that liberty is only ...
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The Washington Times: In your 10-point vision for America (See “Imagining Freedom for the 21st Century, Part 2,” Freedom Daily, July ...
Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
by Mancur Olson (New York: Basic Books, 2000); 233 pages; $28.
MANCUR OLSON, who died in 1998 at the age of 62, was one of the most insightful economic analysts of the ...