Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell (New York: Basic Books, 2000); 366 pages; $30.
WHEN ADAM SMITH completed his criticisms of mercantilism, the 18th-century system of government planning and control, in The Wealth of Nations, he ...
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The corrosive effects that may occur from a spirit of political and economic nationalism were understood long before the disastrous consequences experienced as a result of them in the 20th century. In 1759, in ...
Global Fortune: The Stumble and Rise of World Capitalism
edited by Ian Vasquez (Washington, D. C.: Cato Institute, 2000); 295 pages; $18.95 cloth; $9.95 paperback.
IN SEPTEMBER 2000, David Henderson, a prominent free-market economist in Great Britain, delivered the annual Wincott ...
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IN NOVEMBER 1934, during the dark years of growing tyranny throughout Europe, British historian Ramsey Muir penned a short article that appeared in the pages of the journal The Nineteenth Century and After. His ...
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by Hernando de Soto (New York: Random House, 2000); 243 pages; $24.95.
CONSIDER THE TERM “the Third World.” Most people probably would conjure up in their minds ...
Thirty years ago, British economist William R. Lewis wrote a monograph for the Institute of Economic Affairs in London entitled Rome or Brussels...? His theme was the contrast between the original motives and purposes behind the establishment of the ...
Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
by James Bovard (St. Martin’s Press, 2000); 426 pages; $26.95.
WHEN THE HISTORY of the last decade of the 20th century is written sometime in ...
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In 1952 ,free-market economist Michael A. Heilperin delivered a lecture entitled “An Economist’s Views on International Organization.” He told his audience,
It is an elementary, but often forgotten, knowledge that policies of national governments ...
The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century
by A. James Gregor (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2000); 240 pages; $30.
IN 1947, Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises published a short book entitled Planned Chaos. He analyzed ...
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In this Post–Cold War epoch the world is desperately searching for international order, global peace, and general economic prosperity. The great debate going on around the world is whether these desired goals can be ...
