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Profit-Maker-Friend or Foe? How the market economy serves us. Inflation: Soviet Style, 1945 A runaway market in fiat money. Some Things to Think About The coercive versus the voluntary way. Brian Summers Howard Baetjer Jr. William H. Peterson Hal Watkins 195 196 207 209 Limited Government Steven E. Daskal 215 National stability through limited government and market freedom. Laws Against Plant Closings Hans F. Sennholz 219 Labor unions and government combine to thwart business adjustments. Essay on Caring Ridgway K. Foley, Jr. 230 Pitfalls in the political process of caring for others. Do Machines Destroy Jobs? Bastiat's lesson on the blessings of capital. Dean Russell 235 Set the Standard High Dennis L. Peterson 243 Social improvement comes through self-improvement. Information in the Market This information may be harmful to you. Joe Cobb 247 Book Reviews: 251 "The Good News is the Bad News is Wrong" by Ben Wattenberg "Inside the Criminal Mind" by Stanton Samenow "Ideas Have Consequences" by Richard N. Weaver Anyone wishing to communicate with authors may send first-class mail in care of THE FREEMAN for forwarding.

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