The Free Market 14, no. 5 (May 1996) To the outside world, it appears that all economists agree: free trade can never be compromised. Inside, the picture is far more complicated. Good economists, preeminently the Austrian School, favor liberty across the board. Yet among the mainstream, economists who favor big government at home likely reject
The Free Market 14, no. 6 (June 1996) Normal people look right past the tiny cars beloved by environmental groups, self-appointed consumer advocates, and the federal government. These are joyless machines like the three-cylinder Geo Metro XFi and Honda Civic VX, ugsome little pods designed not for comfort, utility, or performance, but rather to
The Free Market 14, no. 7 (July 1996) Voter opposition to major “free trade” agreements helped propel a surge in protectionist rhetoric this year. Even constituencies when should be naturally free trade—Republican conservatives—have fallen prey to old fallacies. But mainstream Republicans largely have themselves to blame for this phenomenon. By
The Free Market 14, no. 11 (November 1996) The Senator has a painful announcement to make. His daughter is mentally ill. This gives him special insight into a social injustice: insurance companies are less willing to cover mental illness than other forms. They place annual and lifetime limits on the number of permitted psychiatric sessions, for
The Free Market 14, no. 11 (November 1996) As the Cold War wound down, opinion elites discovered a new menace: “unfair trade practices.” These are the subsidies, protectionist tariffs, and various regulations and business practices other countries use, which hamper the export of American goods. A new threat, a new crusade, and this one in the
The Free Market 14, no. 2 (December 1996) Last Christmas some cheeky MIT undergrads pulled one of their trademark “hacks,” publishing a report on the physics of Santa Claus. Using pseudo-precise estimates of the distance Santa must travel plus the number of stops he has to make, the MIT-ers announced (tongues firmly in cheeks) that he would be
The Merchants Of Death Mises Review 2, No. 1 (Spring 1996) WALL STREET, BANKS, AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY Murray N. Rothbard Rothbard-Rockwell Report , 1995, vii + 100 pp. Defenders of the free market are often stigmatized as uncritical apologists for big business. Nothing could be further from the truth, as readers of this book will at once
Living Well Mises Review 2, No. 1 (Spring 1996) PUBLIC POLICY AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE: MARKET INCENTIVES VERSUS GOVERNMENT PLANNING Randall G. Holcombe Greenwood Press, 1995, 190 pp. Randall Holcombe identifies a paradoxical feature of much public argument about economic issues. Socialism has collapsed. The Workers Paradise is no more, and even
Up From Statism Mises Review 2, No. 3 (Fall 1996) Making Economic Sense Murray N. Rothbard Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1995, 439 pgs. Murray Rothbard had a remarkable ability to ask fundamental questions that others, even those within his own free-market camp, missed. After Rothbard touched an issue, it could never remain the same. This
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