Articles From November 1996
SimEconomicsby Lawrence H. White
Dr. White, this month’s guest editor, is associate professor of economics at the University of...
Salvation Through the Internet?by Donald J. Boudreaux
Dr. Boudreaux is associate professor of law and economics at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina....
Home, Home on the Internetby Thomas Boustead
Dr. Boustead, who recently received his doctorate in economics, is interested in law and economics. Sometimes,...
Liberty and the Domain of Self-Interestby Steven Horwitz
Dr. Horwitz is Eggleston Associate Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York....
The Social Function of Mr. Henry Fordby Spencer Heath
Spencer Heath (1876-1963) was a pioneer in aviation manufacturing and the author of Citadel, Market and...
Red-Lining the Federal Government Budgetby Richard H. Timberlake
Dr. Timberlake is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Georgia, Athens. Throughout the...
Law Enforcement by Deceit?: Entrapment and Due Processby Jennifer Johnson
Ms. Johnson is a freelance journalist living in Tampa, Florida. She writes a monthly column dealing with...
Why Not Slavery?by Bertel M. Sparks
Bertel M. Sparks (1918-1994) was a professor of law at New York University and later at Duke University,...
Ending Tax Socialismby James A. Dorn
Mr. Dorn is vice-president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute. In 1848 Marx and Engels proposed...
For Appearance’s Sakeby James D. Saltzman
Don’t let people control the appearance of their property. That’s the view of Montgomery...
Our Most Precious Resourceby Earl Zarbin
Mr. Zarbin, a retired newspaperman, does historical research and writing in Phoenix, Arizona. More often...
Externalities and the Environmentby Andrea Santoriello
Ms. Santoriello is a student, and Dr. Block a professor of economics, at the College of the Holy Cross...
Raoul Wallenberg, Great Angel of Rescueby Jim Powell
Mr. Powell is editor of Laissez Faire Books and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He has written...
Single Policy ChangeDouble Economic Growth?by Mark Skousen
Dr. Skousen is an economist at Rollins College, Department of Economics, Winter Park, Florida 32789,...
The Electric Car Seductionby Lawrence W. Reed
Should government enact laws to subsidize alternative fuels so that people will use less gasoline? Should...
Killing Enterpriseby Doug Bandow
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the...
Sweatshops for the New World Orderby Hans F. Sennholz
Poverty is an anomaly to many Americans. When they encounter it in foreign countries they view it as...
Perspective: We Should Welcome Immigrant Workersby William Leggett
The people who are daily landing here are not paupers, if the capacity and disposition to labour may...
Book Review: The Return of Thrift: How the Collapse of the Middle Class Welfare State Will Reawaken Values in America by Phillip Longmanby Chris Weinkopf
Free Press • 1996 • 241 pages • $25.00 Mr. Weinkopf is an editorial associate at National...
Book Review: Creating the Commonwealth: The Economic Culture of Puritan New England by Stephen Innesby Russell Shannon
W. W. Norton & Company • 1995 • 405 pages • $25.00 Dr. Shannon is professor of economics...
Book Review: The Road Ahead by Bill Gatesby Raymond J. Keating
Viking • 1995 • 286 pages • $29.95 Mr. Keating serves as chief economist with the Small...
Book Review: Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism vs. Coercion Edited by J. Wilson Mixon, Jr.by Fred E. Foldvary
The Foundation for Economic Education • 1996 • 150 pages • $14.95 paperback Dr. Foldvary...
Book Review: Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch and John Rothchildby Philip R. Murray
Fireside • 1995 • 272 pages • $13.00 Philip Murray is an associate professor of economics...
Book Review: Global Bondage by Cliff Kincaidby Laurence M. Vance
Huntington House Publishers • 1995 • 208 pages • $10.99 Mr. Vance is an instructor at...
Book Review: Command Science and the War on AIDS Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter H. Duesbergby Neil DeRosa
Regnery • 1996 • 649 pages • $29.95 Mr. DeRosa is a freelance writer from Poughkeepsie,...
Book Review: The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars Edited by Richard M. Ebeling and Jacob G. Hornbergerby Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Future of Freedom Foundation • 1996 • 380 pages • $24.95 cloth; $17.95 paperback Dr....
