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In Praise of Commercial Culture
by Tyler Cowen (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998); 278 pages; $29.95.
One of the most persistent views in many intellectual circles is that capitalism and the market economy are antagonistic to refined culture and ...
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Free-Market Feminism
by David Conway (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1998); 96 pages; £7.00.
The Soviet Union may be gone, but the Marxian mindset still dominates the intellectual climate of the world. Many of the fashionable fads of our ...
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Collected Works of Edwin Cannan
in 8 volumes, edited by Alan Ebenstein (London/New York: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998); $900.
In 1951, Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek wrote an essay entitled "The Transmission of the Ideals of Economic Freedom." He pointed out, ...
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Money and the Nation State
edited by Kevin Dowd and Richard H. Timberlake Jr. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998); 453 pages; $24.95.
For the entire 20th century, governments have fought a world war against gold as an international monetary ...
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Central Banking in Theory and Practice
by Alan S. Blinder (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998); 92 pages; $20.
In one of the most insightful passages in The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued:
"The statesman, who should attempt to direct ...