Ralph Reiland

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01/01/1998 Free Market Ralph Reiland

The Free Market 16, no. 1 (January 1998) Everyone knows about the class-action lawsuit against Hooters, the restaurant featuring waitresses in shorts and tight t-shirts. In the settlement, Hooters...

Business Under Nazis

10/01/1998 Free Market Ralph Reiland

The Free Market 16, no. 10 (October 1998) In 1944, Ludwig von Mises published one of his least-known masterworks: Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. Drawing on his...

Making Hard Work Illegal

01/01/2000 Free Market Ralph Reiland

The Free Market 18, no. 1 (January 2000) Jean-Claude Castex is surrounded by miracles, or at least the quest for miracles. As the official feutier, or tender of religious candles, at Lourdes, the spot...

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