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the Freeman VOL. 25, NO. 10 • OCTOBER 1975 What Makes Jobs Scarce? Merryle Stanley Rukeyser 579 Mass unemployment means there's been coercive interference in the market. Stop, Thief! C. W. Anderson 585 Let's call a halt to wasteful government spending and impoverishment of the people. Public Policy for a Free Economy Darryl R. Francis 589 Concerning the possible conflict between democracy and free enterprise. Deregulation-What Prospects? George Hagedorn 597 Let's admit that government is not a universal problem solver. The Nobilityof the Bourgeoisie Edmund A. Opitz 600 Some reasons why the market economy best serves the human condition. Better Bread than Dead The Incredible ,Bread Machine 610 Concerning the importance of private property and the violation of rights to property. Liberty and Property David Kelley 617 The disregard of property rights opens the door to the suppression of ideas.

The Free Market: EternallyThere The market will function when men are free. Earl Zarbin 626 Capitalism:Definition-Origins-Dynamics V. Orval Watts 628 Prosperity has its perils, not least of which is forgetting how it was achieved. Book Reviews: 635 "Free Market Economics" by Bettina Bien Greaves "The Growth of the American Government" by Roger A. Freeman Anyone wishing to communicate with authors may send first-class mail in care of THE FREEMAN for forwarding.

tile Freeman A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF IDEAS ON LIBERTY IRVINGTONON-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 $10,000-as the means of maintaining and extending the Foundation's work. Copyright, 1975. 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; 2'5 or more, 20 cents each.

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