The Free Market 18, no. 3 (march 2000) In at least one area, the US economic expansion has left a trail of destruction in its wake: on it are members of the profession that pretends to forecast future economic conditions. Gene Epstein of Barron’s, speaking at a Mises Institute conference, cited as an example the famous Wall Street Journal survey
The Free Market 21, no. 3 (March 2003) When some left-wing activists recently began their What Would Jesus Drive? campaign against sport utility vehicles, the first reaction of most folks—and especially libertarians—was a simple, “Are these people really serious?” It turns out, unfortunately, that they indeed were serious, or at least serious
The Free Market 6, no. 2 (February 1988) Compared with life in Western countries, where the socialist sector is sizable, life under total socialism is miserable. The standard of living is so deplorable that, in 1961, the socialist East German government built a system of walls, barbed wire, electrified fences, minefields, automatic shooting
The Free Market 6, no. 3 (March 1988) The hottest new topic in mathematics, physics, and allied sciences is “chaos theory.” It is radical in its implications, but no one can accuse its practitioners of being anti- mathematical, since its highly complex math, including advanced computer graphics, is on the cutting edge of mathematical theory. In
The Free Market 6, no. 2 (Febrero 1988) Comparada con la vida en los países de Occidente –donde el sector socializado es considerable– la vida en el socialismo total es miserable. El estándar de vida es tan deplorable que, en 1961, el gobierno de la socialista Alemania Oriental construyó un sistema de muros, alambre de púas, cercas electrificadas,
The Free Market 6, no. 3 (March 1988) El nuevo y más candente asunto en el campo de las matemáticas, la física y las ciencias colindantes es “la teoría del caos”. Es radical en sus implicaciones, pero nadie puede acusar a sus practicantes de ser enemigos de las matemáticas, ya que sus matemáticas además de ser muy complejas, con sus avanzadas
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