Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
by Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway (New York/London: Holmes & Meier, 1993); 336 pages.
In 1932, the English economist Edwin Cannan delivered the ...
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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 ...
