Power Kills: Democracy as a Method of Nonviolence
by R.J. Rummel (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1997); 246 pages; $32.95.
In 1994, political scientist R.J. Rummel summarized the consequences of tyrannical government in the 20th century in his book Death ...
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Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study
by Robert J. Barro (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1997); 145 pages; $22.50.
The London School of Economics regularly hosts a Lionel Robbins lecture series. Lord Robbins, who in the 1930s was a ...
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How Nations Grow Rich: The Case for Free Trade
by Melvyn Krauss (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); 140 pages; $22.50.
One of the frustrations in the study of economics is the discovery of how frequently the same fallacious ideas ...
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The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America
by Paul Craig Roberts and Karen Lafollette Araujo (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); 214 pages; $25.
The mass media has focused public attention on the dramatic attempts to implement market-oriented reforms in Eastern ...
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Dynamics of the Mixed Economy: Toward a Theory of Interventionism
by Sanford Ikeda (New York: Routledge, 1997); 296 pages; $69.95.
POPULAR RHETORIC in the news media and in political discussions claims that with the fall of communism, free-market economics has triumphed ...
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