Regulation without the State ... The Debate Continues
by John Blundell and Colin Robinson (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2000); 93 pages; $15.
ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO, free-market economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman published a short book entitled Capitalism and ...
WHAT MAKES SOMEONE an American as opposed to, say, an Englishman, or a Frenchman, or a German, or an Italian? Within these other countries, the answers are fairly simple.
For example, a German ...
Government: Whose Obedient Servant? A Primer in Public Choice
by Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, and Gordon L. Brady (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2000); 184 pages; $15.
IN SPITE OF THE COLOSSAL DISASTER of socialism throughout the world and the corrupt ...
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FOR SIX DAYS, during December 6-12, 2000, the 15 member-nations of the European Union (EU) met in Nice, France, for a conference that was meant to set the direction and structure for the organization ...
Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell (New York: Basic Books, 2000); 366 pages; $30.
WHEN ADAM SMITH completed his criticisms of mercantilism, the 18th-century system of government planning and control, in The Wealth of Nations, he ...
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The corrosive effects that may occur from a spirit of political and economic nationalism were understood long before the disastrous consequences experienced as a result of them in the 20th century. In 1759, in ...
Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism
edited by Ian Vasquez (Washington, D. C.: Cato Institute, 2000); 295 pages; $18.95 cloth; $9.95 paperback.
IN SEPTEMBER 2000, David Henderson, a prominent free-market economist in Great Britain, delivered the annual Wincott ...
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IN NOVEMBER 1934, during the dark years of growing tyranny throughout Europe, British historian Ramsey Muir penned a short article that appeared in the pages of the journal The Nineteenth Century and After. His ...
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by Hernando de Soto (New York: Random House, 2000); 243 pages; $24.95.
CONSIDER THE TERM “the Third World.” Most people probably would conjure up in their minds ...
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 ...
