All Posts Tagged With: "Eastern Europe"
Ludwig von Mises and the Vienna of His Time – Part II
From the time of World War I, Ludwig von Mises’s writings expressed the classical-liberal cosmopolitan conception of man, society, and freedom. Throughout the interwar period his works on the general principles of the liberal market order, the dangerous dead end to which socialist society would lead, and the contradictions and corrupting influences of economic interventionism [...]
1Apr2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedEstonia Moves to Liberty
Contributing editor Norman Barry (norman.barry@buckingham.ac.uk) is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the U.K. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s) and Business Ethics (Macmillan). We have read a lot about former Soviet regimes struggling to shake off the last remnants of communism. [...]
1May2004 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedFond Memories of Communism
“You! You bastard, you destroyed the greatest system in the world!” I was taking my English class to our room at the Institute for Physical Chemistry in Warsaw when I heard this slightly mad Russian voice bellowing at me. “No, I didn’t. You did that all by yourself and you can’t have Alaska back,” I [...]
1Aug2002 | Stephen Browne | 1 comment | ContinuedImmoral, Unconstitutional War
David Mayer is professor of law and history at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia Press). The United States has no vital interests at stake in Yugoslavia; the conflict there is the kind of European war that Americans should avoid if we [...]
1Jul1999 | David N. Mayer | 1 comment | ContinuedAn Environment Without Property Rights
When Eastern Europe began to open up in the late 1980s, one of the great shocks was the severity of its environmental problems. Journalists reported on skies full of smoke from lignite and soft coal, children kept inside for much of the winter because of unsafe air, and horses that had to be moved away [...]
1Feb1997 | and Richard L. Stroup | 1 comment | ContinuedEuropean Malaise
An American who looks upon the world perceives many forms of misery. Many are worse than his own. Looking upon Europe he may be surprised and dismayed about the economic difficulties some countries are experiencing and the political turmoil that is tearing them apart. The countries of Eastern Europe continue to suffer the pains of [...]
1Feb1997 | Hans F. Sennholz | 1 comment | ContinuedFree Enterprise Moves East: Doing Business from Prague to Vladivostok
Dr. Sabrin is professor of finance at Ramapo College of New Jersey and author of Tax Free 2000: The Rebirth of American Liberty. The genie is out of the bottle. From the heart of Central Europe to the easternmost regions of the former Soviet Union, the capitalist revolution has taken root—deeply in some areas, less [...]
1Dec1996 | Murray Sabrin | 0 comments | Continued-
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