In the 19th century, many classical liberals believed that the ideas of "national identity" and "nationalism" were false scents that were likely to lead the world away from liberty and towards a continuation of political tyranny and international conflict. ...
Post-Communist Societies in Transition: A Social Market Perspective
by John Gray (London: Social Market Foundation, 1994) 45 pages; £8.00.
In 1984, Oxford University philosopher John Gray published a book entitled Hayek on Liberty . After it appeared in a ...
For three years, civil war has caused massive death and destruction in the former Yugoslavia. Almost every day, the television evening news has broadcast pictures of devastating artillery bombardments, ruined towns and villages, and multitudes of killed and wounded ...
Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare Without Politics
by David G. Green (London: Institute for Economic Affairs, 1993); 166 pages; £7.95.
When President Clinton delivered his address to a joint session of Congress to ...
The cover of the December 1993 issue of The Atlantic Monthly had a caricature of Adam Smith running away while being chased by a rain of rotten apples, stones and copies of a book with the name Friedrich ...
Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement
by Justin Raimondo (Burlingame, CA: Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993); 287 pages.
In the first issue of the conservative quarterly Modern Age — Summer 1957 — there was ...
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In his recent book The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe (1993), historian Gale Stokes suggests, "Students who graduate from college after the turn ...
For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
by Charles Adams (New York: Madison Books, 1993); 530 pages; $29.95.
In 1918, Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter observed, "The fiscal history of a people is above all ...
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The modern welfare state arose in Imperial Germany in the late 19th century. Under pressure of growing support for the Social Democratic Party in the 1870s and 1880s, Kaiser Wilhem ...
Failure and Progress: The Bright Side of the Dismal Science
by Dwight R. Lee and Richard B. McKenzie (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1993); 163 pages; $10.95.
In An Economist's Protest (1927), English economist Edwin Cannan remarked, "Modern civilization, nearly ...
