Russia Transformed: Breakthrough to Hope
by James H. Billington (New York: The Free Press, 1992); 202 pages; $19.95.
Earlier this year, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., hosted an exhibit of previously secret documents ...
For the last three years, the Eastern European countries and the republics of the former Soviet Union have been trying to escape from their socialist past. Democratic governments have been elected, and market ...
Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws by Richard A. Epstein (Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1992); 530 pages; $39.95.
In the 1960s, many ...
At the dawn of the 20th century, in 1899, the French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon looked into the future and described "the immediate fate of the nation which shall first see the ...
The Development Frontier: Essays in Applied Economics
by Peter Bauer (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991); 241 pages; $24.95.
Socialism has had two playgrounds on which to exercise its destructive force. One has been in ...
It seems that no matter how many times governmental planning is implemented and fails, the temptation to try to design the economic system through political means remains irresistible. One of the reasons for this was explained in the 1880s ...
Two Essays by Ludwig Von Mises: Liberty and Property and Middle-of-the-Road Leads to Socialism
(Auburn: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1991); 74 pages; $5.00.
Ludwig von Mises's position as the 20th century's preeminent advocate of the market economy is based upon ...
Friedrich August von Hayek was one of the greatest economists and political philosophers of the 20th century. After Ludwig von Mises, Professor Hayek was the leading figure of the Austrian School of Economics during the last six decades. He ...
The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek, Volume 4: The Fortunes of Liberalism, Essays on Austrian Economics and the Ideal of Freedom (Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1992); 279 pages; $29.95.
Classical liberalism has ...
In 1966, a well-known business-affairs columnist of the time named Donald I. Rogers wrote a short book entitled The End of Free Enterprise. His theme was that the American business community had lost its way intellectually and ideologically. "What ...
