Do you ever watch the business news and think: what would Murray Rothbard say about this? He remained a news junky all his life, even while working on his grand scholarly treatises. He was no academic snob; he believed, like Mises, that economics was the business of everyone. It is in this book that you find his running commentary on all the
The Free Market 13, no. 11 (November 1995) Copy Japan! was the cry of the 1980s. That country, economically speaking, appeared to have it all: an industrial policy that knew good and bad investments before markets themselves did, a disciplined workforce, and, most of all, an unshakable banking system in which everyone had confidence. Surveying
Gingrich’s Gurus Mises Review 1, No. 2 (Summer 1995) CREATING A NEW CIVILIZATION: THE POLITICS OF THE THIRD WAVE Alvin and Heidi Toffler Foreword by Newt Gingrich Turner Publishing, 1995, 112 pp. Newt Gingrich claims that “Alvin and Heidi Toffler have given us the key to viewing current disarray within the positive framwork of a dynamic, exciting
The Free Market 13, no. 5 (May 1995) When discussing the secession of Quebec from the Rest of Canada (ROC), many Anglo-Canadian economists become doomsday preachers of apocalyptic scenarios. They predict social calamities such as poverty, mass unemployment, civil war, and mass exodus. They should settle down, try to be rational, and focus on the
The Free Market 13, no. 7 (July 1995) In the Clinton administration’s spin control on the Mexican meltdown, Nafta had nothing to do with it. Without the treaty, matters would have been worse, the White House says, and now Nafta will help Mexico recover. The Republican leadership, which shepherded Nafta to ratification, has no interest in
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