7. Welfare Economics: A Modern Austrian Perspective
7
Welfare Economics:
A Modern Austrian Perspective
Israel M. Kirzner
8. Why Rothbard Will Never Win the Nobel Prize!
8
Why Murray Rothbard Will
Never Win the Nobel Prize!
Gary North
9. Economic Efficiency and Public Policy
9
Economic Efficiency and Public Policy
E. C. Pasour, Jr.
10. Comparable Worth: Theoretical Foundations
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Comparable Worth:
Theoretical Foundations
Ellen Frankel Paul
Comparable worth is sweeping the country. In 25 states, studies are currently being conducted on wage disparities between men and women and how they might be rectified, while five other states have already implemented comparable worth schemes. A bill calling for a comparable worth study of the Federal bureaucracy passed the House of Representatives in 1984.
11. Three National Treasures: Hazlitt, Hutt, and Rothbard
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Three National Treasures:
Hazlitt, Hutt, and Rothbard
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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 the wrong-headed Keynesian and socialist ideas; or giving a theoretical cover to State inflation, taxation, regulation, and spending—the typical economist is not a friend of liberty.
12. Murray Rothbard as Investment Advisor
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Murray Rothbard as
Investment Advisor
Mark Skousen
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
John Maynard Keynes
13. Utility and the Social Welfare Function
13
Utility and the
Social Welfare Function
Leland B. Yeager
Part II: Philosophy
Part 2
Philosophy
14. Freedom and Virtue Revisited
14
Freedom and Virtue Revisited
Douglas J. Den Uyl
Q: How many Libertarians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. The free market will do it.
15. Particular Liberties Against the General Will
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Particular Liberties Against the General Will
Antony Flew