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Free Enterprise and Health Care Frank J. Primich 261 For efficient health care, look to the market instead of political regulation and control. The Double-Headed Coin of Rights and Duties Morris Shumlatcher 267 The other side of "rights" spells duties. Health Care: Cross Questions and Crooked Answers Clarence B. Carson 271 Need for medical care depends on the individual's design for living. The Economics of Energy David P. Hunt 278 How a free market overcomes a "shortage" of natural gas. Gold Has RisenBut Remains the Same Donald McLaughlin 281 An examination of the monetary role gold has played, and still does. Politics and Ideas Ludwig von Mises 289 Political events are the inevitable consequence of economic ideas and policies-and ideas can change. In Defense of Government P. Dean Russell 299 In one way or another human actions and relationships will be governed. Government Cost/Benefit Analyses: The Impetus and the Impotence John Semmens 304 The attempt to justify government subsidies through cost/benefit studies is bound to fail.

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