The Economics of Liberty

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Content: I. Economic truth vs. political power. Outlawing jobs: the minimum wage, once more / Murray N. Rothbard -- The scourge of unionism / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Keynesianism redux / Murray N. Rothbard -- The Keynesian dream / Murray N. Rothbard -- The free-rider confusion / Tom Bethell -- Property rights, taxation, and the supply-siders / Tom Bethell -- The regulatory attack on the market / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Are savings too low? / Murray N. Rothbard -- The "we" fallacy / Sheldon L. Richman -- U.S. trade law: losing its bearings / Alex Tabarrok -- Statistics: destroyed from within? / Murray N. Rothbard -- The truth about economic forecasting / Graeme B. Littler -- Michael R. Milken: political prisoner? / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- The economic wisdom of the late scholastics / Jeffrey A. Tucker. II. Debunking the bankers. Bring back the bank run! / James Grant -- Nick and Jim Dandy to the rescue / Bradley Miller -- Q&A on the S&L mess / Murray N. Rothbard -- Inflation redux / Murray N. Rothbard -- Faustian economics / John V. Denson -- A gold standard for Russia? / Murray N. Rothbard -- The source of the business cycle / Jeffrey A. Tucker -- The key to sound money / Edwin Vieira, Jr. -- Foreclose on the world bank / E. Cort Kirkwood. III. Unmasking the bureaucrats. Why bureaucracy must fail / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Your visit to our nation's capital / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- The case against NASA / Sheldon L. Richman -- Kemp at HUD: should free-marketeers be optimistic? / Greg Kaza -- Government and Hurricane Hugo: a deadly combination / Murray N. Rothbard -- Big government: an unnatural disaster / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- In defense of Congress / Llewellyn H. Rockwell Exxon: biggest victim of the Alaskan oil spill / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- "Afraid to trust the people with arms" / Stephen P. Halbrook. IV. The government mess. Back to first principles / Joseph Sobran -- Why government grows / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Our tentative economic freedoms / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- The great society and 25 years of decline / William Murchison -- Civil rights and the politics of theft / Joseph Sobran -- Triumph of liberty? not in the U.S. / Robert Higgs -- The federal agricultural swamp / James Bovard -- Government garbage / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Artistic "entitlement" / Doug Bandow -- What to do about traffic congestion / Walter Block -- Time for an American perestroika / Robert Higgs -- Immigration and private property / Llewellyn H. Rockwell. V. Threats and outrages. End the war on drugs / Joseph Sobran -- Drugs and adultery / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Would legalization increase drug use? / Lawrence W. Reed -- Mickey Leland: humanitarian? / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Choice in schooling / Sheldon L. Richman -- The high court stems the tupperware threat / Sheldon L. Richman -- Welcoming the Vietnamese / Murray N. Rothbard -- The double danger of AIDS / Richard Hite -- The megaeconomic threat / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Controlling the world economy / Graeme B. Littler, Jeffrey A. Tucker -- The dangers of "national service" / Sheldon L. Richman -- The mandated-benefits scheme / Sheldon L. Richman -- Animal crackers / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Christian economics / Carl C. Curtis, III -- Breaking up the opinion cartel / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- Lyndon Baines Bush? / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- The environmentalist threat / Llewellyn H. Rockwell. VI. The Communist crackup. Mises vindicated / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- The freedom revolution / Murray N. Rothbard -- The old right was right / Sheldon L. Richman -- The vanishing spectre of communism / Doug Bandow -- The socialist holocaust in Armenia / Llewellyn H. Rockwell -- How to desocialize? / Murray N. Rothbard -- A radical prescription for the socialist bloc / Murray N. Rothbard -- Mises in Moscow! an interview with an Austrian economist from the U.S.S.R. / Jeffrey A. Tucker -- Cambodian catharsis / Lawrence W. Reed -- Mises's blueprint for the free society / Sheldon L. Richman. Appendix: a foreign policy for a free-market America, two views. A new nationalism / Patrick J. Buchanan -- America first, once more / Bill Kauffman.