After the seventy-five year experiment with socialist central-planning in the Soviet Union, it has now been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no alternative to a market economy. And ...
Monetarist Economics
by Milton Friedman (Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1991); 188 pages; $29.95
In the 1950s, for all practical purposes, there was only one type of economics — Keynesian economics. In the ten years after John Maynard Keynes published his 1936 volume ...
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In 1945, Nazi totalitarianism was destroyed by the military might of the wartime allies. But within a few months of victory, our comrade-in-arms, "Uncle Joe" Stalin (as he was affectionately ...
Economic Freedom
by F.A. Hayek (Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1991); 415 pages; $29.95.
The two scourges of the 20th century have been socialism and Keynesian economics. Socialism produced the worst forms of tyranny ever known in ...
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World War II was not a war between freedom and tyranny. Rather it was a conflict between alternative systems of collectivism. By the 1930s, there was not one major country ...
Betrayal at Pearl Harbor: How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II
by James Rusbridger and Eric Nave (New York: Summit Books, 1991); 302 pages; $19.95.
In the early morning of December 7,1941, Japanese bombers began their attack rim over Pearl ...
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When World War II ended in 1945, most of Europe lay in ruins. German cities like Dresden and Hamburg had practically been cremated from day-and-night Allied fire-bombings. Warsaw had been ...
Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?
by Viktor Suvorov (London: Harnish Hamilton, 1990); 364 pages; $22.95.
In the early hours of September 1, 1939, the military might of Nazi Germany was set loose on Poland. As Panzer divisions crossed the ...
One of the most effective Marxian methods of argument has been to claim that what appears as reality is in fact illusion. For over a hundred years, Marxists have insisted that such bourgeois ...
Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939
by Harriet Sergeant (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990); 371 pages; $25.
Following the Sino-British War of 1842, several ports along the China coast were opened to Western ...