Freeman

April 2011

Volume 61, 2011

To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, this special issue of The Freeman assembles an able cast of historians to dissect the economic and political aspects of the transformational conflict. This eye-opening analysis is performed by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Burton Folsom, Jr., Bradley J. Birzer, and Joseph R. Stromberg.


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The Privatization of Roads & Highways: Human and Economic Factors

MARCH 23, 2011 by ARTHUR FOULKES

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Commonwealth

MARCH 23, 2011 by DAVID PRYCHITKO

Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy

MARCH 23, 2011 by DAVID M. BROWN

The Road to Big Brother: One Man’s Struggle Against The Surveillance Society

MARCH 23, 2011 by GEORGE C. LEEF

War Is a Government Program

MARCH 23, 2011 by DAVID R. HENDERSON

The Gasoline Demagogues Will Be Back

MARCH 23, 2011 by LAWRENCE W. REED

Maps and Power

MARCH 23, 2011 by STEPHEN DAVIES

The Importance of Subjectivism in Economics

The double inequality of value.

SEPTEMBER 07, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN

For an exchange to take place, the two parties must assess the items traded differently, with each party preferring what he is to receive to what he is to give up.

Prohibitionists: Leave Us Alone!

MARCH 23, 2011 by JOHN STOSSEL

The Civil War and the Statist Mentality

MARCH 23, 2011 by SHELDON RICHMAN
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