The Free Market 5, no. 8 (August 1987) To most Americans, economists don’t leap instantly to mind as treasures, let alone national treasures. Whether making arrogant and fallacious mathematical predictions; filling the minds of college students with Keynesian and socialist buncombe; or giving a theoretical cover to State inflation, taxation,
The Free Market 5, no. 9 (September 1987) As long as bureaucrat-bashing remains sport royal, there is hope. But how much? Even now, confronting bureaucracy’s relentless encroachments and entanglements, whoya gonna call? The Reagan administration phoned Ollie North, a “man of action,” a “take-charge guy” who can “cut through red tape” and “get
The Free Market 5, no. 10 (October 1987) The Institute thanks Margit von Mises for her gracious permission to print excerpts from this un-published talk. ed. The pre-capitalistic system of production was [based on] military conquest. The victorious kings had given the land to their paladins. These aristocrats were lords in the literal sense of
The Free Market 5, no. 11 (November 1987) Empiricism without theory is a shaky reed on which to build a case for freedom. If a regulated airline system did not “work,” and a deregulated system seemed for a time to work well, what happens when the winds of data happen to blow the other way? In recent months, crowding, delays, a few dramatic
The Free Market 5, no. 12 (December 1987) This special edition of the Free Market is devoted to Henry Hazlitt Henry Hazlitt: Giant of Liberty For more than seven decades, Henry Hazlitt has taught the economics of freedom. With pathbreaking theoretical work and a unique ability to communicate with the non-economist—shown forth especially in his
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