The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny by Andrew Bard Schmookler
Volume 2, No. 2 (Summer 1999)
The End of Money and the Struggle for Financial Privacy, by Richard W. Rahn
Volume 2, No. 2 (Summer 1999)
The popular media often see the technological advances of the last century as a frightening boost to the power and reach of the state. The box-office hit Enemy of the State, starring Will Smith, shows a government using high technology to persecute an innocent citizen. Likewise, Gattaca portrayed a society in which technology had almost erased personal privacy and enabled the state to suppress the most precious individual freedoms.
Review of Economics and Reality, by Tony Lawson
Volume 2, No. 2 (Summer 1999)
Tony Lawson, an economics lecturer at Cambridge University, defends a thesis sure to arouse the interest of Austrians. Mainstream economics lies crushed in the fatal grip of positivism. The futile search for constants in human behavior condemns econometrics to sterility; and economic theory as a whole is little better. It disregards the basic truth that human beings act.
The Origins of the Federal Reserve
Volume 2, No. 3 (Fall 1999)
The financial elites of this country, notably the Morgan, Rockefeller, and Kuhn, Loeb interests, were responsible for putting through the Federal Reserve System, as a governmentally created and sanctioned cartel device to enable the nation’s banks to inflate the money supply in a coordinated fashion, without suffering quick retribution from depositors or note holders demanding cash.Credit Creation or Financial Intermediation?: Fractional-Reserve Banking in a Growing Economy
Volume 2, No. 3 (Fall 1999)
The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages by Tom Bethell
Volume 2, No. 3 (Fall 1999)
Winners, Losers, and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
Review of Antitrust: The Case for Repeal by Dominick T. Armentano
Volume 2, No. 3 (Fall 1999)
Economic Science and Neoclassicism
Volume 2, No. 4 (Winter 1999)