Freeman

January/February 2012

Volume 62, 2012

Politicians in Alabama and Georgia are cashing in on immigration fears to buy votes, but everyone pays, as Scott Beaulier, Darrick Luke and Daniel Smith explain.  Robert Higgs asks if regime uncertainty explains the current malaise. Andrew Morriss marvels at how much better we live than Elvis did. Gary Chartier asks who’s really on the side of the poor and Robert Murphy says the Euro shows how little one can expect from a currency born entirely of government.


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Tough on Immigration Is Tough on Economic Growth

JANUARY 04, 2012 by SCOTT BEAULIER, DANIEL J. SMITH, DARRICK C. LUKE

Destroying Value

JANUARY 04, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN

Disaster Response Restores Confidence in Government?

JANUARY 04, 2012 by TYLER WATTS

Going to Graceland

JANUARY 04, 2012 by ANDREW P. MORRISS

Some Sins of Textbook Economics

JANUARY 04, 2012 by DONALD BOUDREAUX

Government Is No Friend of the Poor

JANUARY 04, 2012 by GARY CHARTIER

Blowing Bubbles: Getting Ready for the Next Bust

JANUARY 04, 2012 by RICHARD W. FULMER

Regime Uncertainty, Then and Now

JANUARY 04, 2012 by ROBERT HIGGS

State-Mandated Thinking

JANUARY 04, 2012 by PETER MCALLISTER

Occupying Wall Street

JANUARY 04, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
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