World Tour
Chicago-based Boeing, challenged by Europe’s Airbus to produce a new plane to carry more passen- gers at lower prices, is planning a sleek new 787 …
E Pluribus Unum
The new Iraqi government faces a formidable task – to create a unified “nation” out of a state containing three disparate and widely divergent groups. …
Blame Canada
Michael Tanner a Cato health care expert, writes: “Because cancer is a slow-moving and expensive disease to treat, it is not cost-effective under socialized medicine …
T-Shirt Safari
Pietra Rivoli, associate professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, got the idea for this book when a crowd of raucous students invaded the …
Frontier Gun Control
The year is 1878. The place, Gold Creek – a mining town in the territory of New Mexico, not far from the Mexican border. The …
Padding the Numbers
The U.S. government recently placed a new quota on imports of cheap hand-sewn brassieres from China. As a result, Chinese brassiere makers are trying to …
Japan’s Gift to FDR
It was about 9:30 p.m. on the evening of Dec. 6, 1941.1 Navy Lieutenant Lester R. Schulz, special deputy Communication Watch Officer, assigned that evening …
Szasz and Mises
My first reaction when anyone criticizes Ludwig von Mises is to bristle. What do you mean by saying that my professor, my mentor, was wrong? …
An Unfashionable Mind
Israel Kirzner is well-qualified to write about Ludwig von Mises. He studied under him at New York University, earned his Ph.D. under him in 1957, …
Mill vs. Keynes
People are being asked to spend, spend, spend – out of patriotism and to forestall economic depression. But spending in itself does not prosperity make. …