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Freedom Is an UninsurableRisk Paul L. Poirot 269 The results of freedom cannot be classified or known in advance. Stubborn Facts and Hard Heads Edmund A. Opitz 275 The sooner we recognize that there are unchanging rules of life, the easier for us to enter into it. The Passing Parade How to find in commonplace things the miracle of the market. R. W. Demers 288 Evolutionand Liberty Ronald F. Cooney 290 A search for the "fittest" among the ideas of the Social Darwinists. Bretton Woods: 1944-1971 Paul Stevens 296 Bretton Woods is dead and an autopsy is called for to determine the cause of death. Seeds of Oppression Robert E. Hood 307 How governmf;nt welfare programs inevitably lead to abuse and oppression. SomethingElse FredericBastiat 309 When it comes to protectionism, are we better able than Robinson Crusoe to see its fallacy? Book Reviews: 315 "How to Start Your Own School" by Robert D. love "What You Cail Do About Inflation, Unemployment, Productivity, Profits, and Collective Bargaining" by lemuel R. Boulware Anyone wishing to communicate with authors may send first-class mail in care of THE FREEMAN for forwarding.

the Freeman A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF IDEAS ON LIBERTY IRVINGTON·ON·HUDSON, N. Y. 10533 TEL.: (914) 591·7230 LEONARD E. READ PAUL L. POIROT President, Foundation for Economic Education Managing Editor THE F R E E MAN is published monthly by the Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., a non political, nonprofit, educational champion of private property, the free market, the profit and loss system, and limited government. Any interested person may receive its publications for the asking. The costs of Foundation projects and services, including THE FREEMAN, are met through voluntary donations. Total expenses average $12.00 a year per person on the mailing list. Donations are in vited in any amount-$5.00 to $10,OOO-as the means of maintaining and extending the Foundation's work. Copyright, 1973, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc. Printed in U.S.A. Additional copies, postpaid, to one address: Single copy, 50 cents; 3 for $1.00; 10 for $2.50; 25 or more, 20 cents each.

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