Making Economic Sense (1995)

Making Economic Sense 
by Murray N. Rothbard (Auburn, AL: Mises Institute, 1995)
(Also available in an offline edition)

Contents 

Preface by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr (p. 11)

Making Economic Sense

Is It the "Economy, Stupid"? (p. 15)
Ten Great Economic Myths (p. 18)
Discussing the "Issues" (p. 29)
Creative Economic Semantics (p. 33)
Chaos Theory (p. 35)
Statistics: Destroyed From Within? (p. 38)
The Consequences of Human Action(p. 40)
The Interest Rate Question (p. 42)
Are Savings Too Low? (p. 45)
A Walk on the Supply Side (p. 48)
Keynesian Myths (p. 51)
Keynesianism Redux (p. 53)

The Socialism of Welfare

Economic Incentives and Welfare (p. 59)
Welfare as We Don't Know It (p. 61)
The Infant Mortality "Crisis" (p. 64)
The Homeless and the Hungry (p. 67)
Rioting for Rage, Fun, and Profit (p. 69)
The Social Security Swindle (p. 72)
Roots of the Insurance Crisis (p. 75)
Government Medical "Insurance" (p. 78)
The Neocon Welfare State (p. 81)
By Their Fruits (p. 85)
The Politics of Famine (p. 87)
Government vs. Natural Resources (p. 90)
Environmentalists Clobber Texas (p. 92)
Government and Hurricane Hugo: A Deadly Combination (p. 95)
The Water Is Not Running (p. 98)

Politics as Economic Violence

Rethinking the '80s (p. 105)
Bush and Dukakis: Ideologically Inseparable (p. 108)
Perot, The Constitution, and Direct Democracy (p. 111)
The Flag Flap (p. 114)
Clintonomics: The Prospect (p. 116)
Clintonomics Revealed (p. 119)
Price Controls are Back! (p. 123)
The Health Plan's Devilish Principles (p. 127)
Outlawing Jobs: The Minimum Wage, Once More (p. 132)
The Union Problem (p. 135)
The Legacy of Cesar Chavez (p. 139)
Privatization (p. 142)
What To Do Until Privatization Comes (p. 144)
Population "Control" (p. 147)
The Economics of Gun Control (p. 150)
Vouchers: What Went Wrong? (p. 153)
The Whiskey Rebellion: A Model for Our Time? (p. 157)
Eisnerizing Manassas (p. 160)

Enterprise under Attack

Stocks, Bonds, and Rule by Fools (p. 165)
The Salomon Brothers Scandal (p. 168)
Nine Myths About the Crash (p. 171)
Michael R. Milken vs. The Power Elite (p. 176)
Panic on Wall Street (p. 180)
Government-Business "Partnerships" (p. 183)
Airport Congestion: A Case of Market Failure? (p. 186)
The Specter of Airline Re-Regulation (p. 189)
Competition at Work: Xerox at 25 (p. 192)
The War on the Car (p. 194)

Fiscal Mysteries Revealed

Are We Undertaxed? (p. 201)
The Return of the Tax Credit (p. 204)
Deductibility and Subsidy (p. 206)
That Gasoline Tax (p. 208)
Babbitry and Taxes: A Profile in Courage? (p. 212)
Flat Tax or Flat Taxpayer? (p. 214)
Mrs. Thatcher's Poll Tax (p. 217)
Exit the Iron Lady (p. 220)
The Budget Crisis (p. 223)
The Balanced-Budget Amendment Hoax (p. 225)

Economic Ups and Downs

The National Bureau and Business Cycles (p. 231)
Inflationary Recession, Once More (p. 234)
Deflation, Free or Compulsory (p. 237)
Bush and the Recession (p. 241)
Lessons of the Recession (p. 244)

The Fiat Money Plague

The World Currency Crisis (p. 253)
New International Monetary Scheme (p. 257)
"Attacking" the Franc (p. 260)
Back to Fixed Exchange Rates (p. 263)
The Cross of Fixed Exchange Rates (p. 267)
The Keynesian Dream (p. 271)
Money Inflation and Price Inflation (p. 273)
Bank Crisis! (p. 276)
Anatomy of the Bank Run (p. 280)
Q & A on the S & L Mess (p. 283)
Inflation Redux (p. 288)
Inflation and the Spin Doctors (p. 290)
Alan Greenspan: A Minority Report on the Fed Chairman (p. 293)
The Mysterious Fed (p. 295)
First Step Back to Gold (p. 298)

Economics Beyond the Borders

"Free Trade" in Perspective (p. 303)
The Nafta Myth (p. 306)
Is There Life After Nafta? (p. 310)
"Fairness" and the Steel Steal (p. 313)
The Crusade Against South Africa (p. 317)
Are Diamonds Really Forever? (p. 319)
Oil Prices Again (p. 322)
Why the Intervention in Arabia? (p. 325)
A Trip to Poland (p. 330)
Peru and the Free Market (p. 332)
A Gold Standard for Russia? (p. 334)
Should We Bail Out Gorby? (p. 337)
Welcoming the Vietnamese (p. 340)

The End of Collectivism

The Collapse of Socialism (p. 345)
The Freedom Revolution (p. 347)
How to Desocialize? (p. 350)
A Radical Prescription for the Socialist Bloc (p. 353)
A Socialist Stock Market? (p. 356)
The Glorious Postwar World (p. 358)
The Revolution Comes Home (p. 361)
The Trouble with the Quick Fix (p. 365)

Our Intellectual Debts

William Harold Hutt: 1899-1988 (p. 373)
Friedrich August von Hayek: 1899-1992 (p. 376)
V. Orval Watts: 1898-1993 (p. 380)
Margit von Mises: 1890-1993 (p. 381)
The Story of the Mises Institute (p. 384)

Postscript

The November Revolution . . . And What to Do About It (p. 393)
List of Articles (p. 423)
Index

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