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Book Reviews – June 2007
- Hitlers Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
by Goetz Aly Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
by Timothy P. Carney Reviewed by Sheldon Richman
- Income and Wealth
by Alan Reynolds Reviewed by George C. Leef
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle What We Have Learned; How to Fix It
by Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
- The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
by Hugh Taylor Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
Punishing the Innocent: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Barbara Hunter is a freelance writer. She recently retired after more than 25 years in the field of information technology, primarily at high-technology companies and law firms.
If any person or any group had set itself the task of creating a law whose purpose was to destroy the American free-enterprise system, it could not have done [...]
Enron and the Law of the Market
People will learn lessons from the collapse of Enron. Some of these will be the wrong lessons.
Critics of markets claim that the Enron debacle shows how “capitalism” is defective and proclaim that the government should increase the regulation of corporations and financial markets. There does need to be a change in government policy, but not [...]
Setting Up Pigeons
The anti–free-market crowd is cackling over Enron. But who’s really entitled to say, “I told you so”? Is this the result of unbridled robber barons? Or the predictable outcome of the regulatory regime?
There is only one sure consequence of pervasive regulation: a blunted wariness born of a false sense that government watchdogs are on the [...]
Enron and Argentina Are Examples of Market Failure? It Just Aint So!
In the eyes of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, nearly everything that goes wrong in the world is caused by the fact that government is not big and powerful enough. In a mid-December 2001 column he blamed both the bankruptcy of Enron and the collapse of the Argentine economy on deregulation. But, as is [...]
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