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Living Together Roger Donway 204 Concerning the bonds of sociability underlying the concept of laissezfaire. The Farm StrikeWill It Do More Harm than Good? Leland P. Cade 211 Is a cost-price squeeze sufficient reason to repeal the law of supply and demand? Levels of Discussion Hans F. Sennholz 215 All ideas must be submitted to the test of free discussion which is a reliable friend of truth. Is the Free Market Ethical? Fred E. Foldvary 220 A market free of coercion is on firm moral ground. World in the Grip of an Idea 16. Sweden: The Paternal State Clarence B. Carson 223 The curious notion of the paternal state could hardly have come from a careful study of history. What Price Control Really Means Lawrence W. Reed 235 The history of price control is the history of shortages, queues, and dissatisfied customers. Constitutional Restraints on Power Edmund A. Opitz 239 Government is the power structure that free men are obliged to restrain.

Book Reviews: 244 "Beyond Failure: How to Cure a Neurotic Society" by Frank Goble "A Critique of Interventionism" by Ludwig von Mises "Notes and Recollections" by Ludwig von Mises "On the Manipulation of Money and Credit" by Ludwig von Mises "It's No Sin To Be Rich: A Defense of Capitalism" by William Davis "The People Shapers" by Vance Packard Anyone wishing to communicate with authors may send first-class mail in care of THE FREEMAN for forwarding. ' @FreemanW A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF IDEAS ON LIBERTY FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. t0533 Tel: (914) 591-7230 Leonard E.Read, President Managing Editor: Paul L. Poirot Production Editor: Beth A. Hoffman Contributing Editors: Robert G. Anderson Bettina Bien Greaves Edmund A. Opitz (Book Reviews) Brian Summers THE FREEMAN is published monthly by the Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., a non political, nonprofit, educational champion of pri vate property, the free market, the profit and loss system, and limited government.

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