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Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner
Alfred A. Knopf • 1997 • 410 pages • $27.50 Robert Kuttner’s Everything for Sale carries the subtitle The Virtues and Limits of Markets. Unfortunately, Kuttner sees few, if any, virtues and many limits when it comes to free markets. Of course, it will surprise few that Kuttner holds this view. After all, he is [...]
1Nov1997 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Case for Economic Freedom
Dr. Benjamin A. Rogge (1920-1980) was dean and professor of economics at Wabash College in Indiana and long a trustee of FEE. This lecture, printed in The Freeman in 1963, was delivered at several FEE seminars and on other occasions. It sets forth the Rogge ideal of the unmixed free economy. My economic philosophy is [...]
1Mar1997 | Benjamin A. Rogge | 1 comment | Continued-
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