Unfinished Business: A Civil Rights Strategy for America's Third Century
by Clint Bolick (San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute, 1990) 159 PP; $19.95.
At a time in world history when the demand for human rights has become almost universal, little ...
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, most of the governments of Europe established a set of economic policies which became known as mercantilism. Kings, princes and parliaments implemented and vigorously enforced detailed and pervasive controls and regulations over ...
Capitalism
by Arthur Seldon (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1990) 419 pp; $29.95.
Arthur Seldon has been one of the most influential economists of the post-World War II era. He studied with Friedrich A. Hayek at the ...
A specter is haunting the economies of the world. It is the specter of protectionism. In one country after the other, cries are heard that international trade, rather than bringing mutual prosperity, imposes ...
Free Market Morality: The Political Economy of the Austrian School
by Alexander H. Shand ( New York: Routledge, 1990) 228 pp.; $16.95 (h).
The global collapse of socialism and central planning have left a large ...
One of Karl Marx's most effective and influential methods of argumentation was to use language and mental imagery which were descriptive of an earlier stage of human history and then apply them to the emerging market-oriented society in which ...
The Ethics of Redistribution by Bertrand de Jouvenel (Indianapolis: Liberty press, 1990) 118 pp.; $12 (h);$5 (p).
In the 20th century, governments increasingly ...
When the Founding Fathers wrote and then defended the case for passage of the Constitution in 1787-1788, they did so with a strong belief in the natural rights of man, rights that Thomas Jefferson had so ...
Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union
by Timothy W. Ryback (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) 272 pp., $21.95.
My own taste in music runs along classical lines: Beethoven, Mozart, ...
In the 1850s, a Southerner named George Fitzhugh wrote two books entitled, Sociology for the South: or The Failure of Free Society and Cannibals All! Or Slaves Without Masters. The essence of his argument was summarized by ...
