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In 1836, the English classical liberal Henry Fairbairn looked into the future and this is what he saw: "Seeing then, that in ...
Mises: An Annotated Bibliography
compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves and Robert W. McGee (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1993); 391 pages; $14.95.
In his 1894 book, The Tyranny of Socialism, the French classical liberal Yves Guyot admitted that ...
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"The principle of free trade is non-interference," wrote the English classical economist Nassau Senior in 1828. "It is to suffer every man ...
Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History
edited by Donald N. McCloskey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); 208 pages; $24.95.
In his introduction to the 1954 book Capitalism and the Historians , ...
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The greatest myth that has emerged out of the end of the Cold War is that a philosophy of freedom has triumphed over an ideology of totalitarianism. The post-World War ...
Prices & Knowledge: A Market-Process Perspective
by Esteban F. Thomsen (New York: Routledge, 1992); 150 pages.
In spite of the repudiation of Soviet-style socialist central planning, the free market has not triumphed. A good part of the reason for this is ...
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In 1949, John T. Flynn published a book entitled The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution. In it he explained that "modern socialism means the assumption by the State of the ...
Hayek and the Keynesian Avalanche
by Brian McCormick (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992); 289 pages; $59.95.
In England in the 1930s, there were two opposing schools of economic thought concerning the causes, ...
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In 1979, the Czech playwright and dissident Vaclav Havel illegally published his famous essay, "The Power of the Powerless." He analyzed the nature of the totalitarian system and the role ...
Welfare Economics and Externalities in an Open Ended Universe: A Modern Austrian Perspective
by Roy E. Cordato (Boston: Kluwer Academic Press, 1992); 140 pages.
Classical liberals and libertarians have traditionally argued that government should be limited to certain essential functions for ...
