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After the experiences of the totalitarian states in the 20th century, logic suggests that the world would have learned the lesson that every growth in state power-every extension of government ...
Grassroots Tyranny: The Limits of Federalism
by Clint Bolick (Washington, D.C.: The Cato Institute, 1993); 195 pages; $21.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).
In his book The Vanishing Rights of the States (1926), former Solicitor General of the United States, James ...
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In the 1870s, English classical economist Henry Faucett warned, "I think it cannot be doubted that protection must exert an inevitable tendency ...
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
by David Remnick (New York: Random House, 1993); 576 pages; $25.
In July 1919, during the Russian Civil War, the Russian philosopher P.D. Ouspensky sent an article from southern Russia to the ...
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"The Protectionist creed rises like a weed in every soil," lamented the English classical economist Walter Bagehot in the 1880s. "Every nation ...
Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century
edited by David Boaz and Edward H. Crane (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1993); 404 pages; $15.95.
As the 20th century approaches its end, the American people face ...
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"Protectionism is purely and highly socialistic," American economist Francis Walker observed in 1887. "Its purpose is so to operate upon individual choices ...
Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
by Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway (New York/London: Holmes & Meier, 1993); 336 pages.
In 1932, the English economist Edwin Cannan delivered the ...
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In 1836, the English classical liberal Henry Fairbairn looked into the future and this is what he saw: "Seeing then, that in ...
Mises: An Annotated Bibliography
compiled by Bettina Bien Greaves and Robert W. McGee (Irvington-on-Hudson, New York: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1993); 391 pages; $14.95.
In his 1894 book, The Tyranny of Socialism, the French classical liberal Yves Guyot admitted that ...
