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The Washington Times: In your 10-point vision for America (See “Imagining Freedom for the 21st Century, Part 2,” Freedom Daily, July ...
Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships
by Mancur Olson (New York: Basic Books, 2000); 233 pages; $28.
MANCUR OLSON, who died in 1998 at the age of 62, was one of the most insightful economic analysts of the ...
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The New York Times: In a recent public opinion poll, 71 percent of the respondents said that the protection of the existing ...
From Subsistence to Exchange and Other Essays
by Peter Bauer (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000); 153 pages; $24.95.
FREE-MARKET ECONOMIST Peter T. Bauer is 85 years old this year. During the 55 years since the end of the Second World ...
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Ladies and gentlemen of the press, America is entering the 21st century as still one of the greatest nations in the world. ...
Trust on Trial: How the Microsoft Case Is Reframing the Rules of Competition
by Richard B. McKenzie (Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2000); 281 pages; $26.
IN HIS 1942 BOOK, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph A. Schumpeter argued, “The fundamental impulse that ...
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The threshold of the 21st century, the American people are once again faced with having to choose ...
15 Great Austrian Economists
edited by Randall G. Holcombe (Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999); 258 pages; $15.95.
TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO, in June 1974, I was fortunate enough to be invited by the Institute for Humane Studies to be one ...
"How different life was for the average American 100 years ago! When the 20th century began, there was no federal income tax, and all levels of government took in taxes equivalent to about ...
Sixty years ago, on May 10, 1940, Hitler's armies began the process of overrunning Holland, Belgium, and France. By the third week of May, the French army was in retreat, and the British Expeditionary Force was withdrawing to Dunkirk. ...