Making Economic Sence

Rothbard M.N.

Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Title page……Page 2
Contents……Page 3
Preface……Page 7
Part I: Making Economic Sense……Page 8
1. Is it the Economy, Stupid?……Page 9
2. Ten Great Economic Myths……Page 12
3. Discussing the Issues……Page 22
4. Creative Economic Semantics……Page 26
5. Chaos Theory……Page 28
6. Statistics……Page 30
7. Consequences of Human Action……Page 32
8. The Interest Rate Question……Page 34
9. Are Savings Too Low?……Page 37
10. A Walk on the Supply Side……Page 40
11. Keynesian Myths……Page 42
12. Keynesian Redux……Page 45
Part II: The Socialism of Welfare……Page 49
13. Economic Incentives & Welfare……Page 50
14. Welfare as We Don’t Know It……Page 52
15. The Infant Mortality Crisis……Page 54
16. The Homeless and the Hungry……Page 57
17. Rioting for Rage, Fun & Profit……Page 59
18. The Social Security Swindle……Page 62
19. Roots of the Insurance Crisis……Page 65
20. Government Medical Insurance……Page 67
21. The Neocon Welfare State……Page 70
22. By their Fruits………Page 74
23. The Politics of Famine……Page 76
24. Government vs Nature Resources……Page 78
25. Environmentalists Clobber Texas……Page 80
26. Govt and Hurricane Hugo……Page 83
27. The Water is Not Running……Page 86
Part III: Politics as Economic Violence……Page 89
28. Rethinking the ’80s……Page 90
29. Bush and Dukakis……Page 92
30. Perot and Direct Democracy……Page 96
31. The Flag Flap……Page 98
32. Clintonomics: The Prospect……Page 101
33. Clintonomics Revealed……Page 103
34. Price Controls are Back!……Page 107
35. The Health Plan’s Principles……Page 110
36. Outlawing Jobs……Page 115
37. The Union Problem……Page 118
38. Legacy of Cesar Chavez……Page 121
39. Privatization……Page 124
40. Waiting for Privatization……Page 126
41. Population Control……Page 129
42. Economics of Gun Control……Page 132
43. Vouchers: What went Wrong?……Page 135
44. The Whiskey Rebellion……Page 138
45. Eisnerizing Manassas……Page 141
Part IV: Enterprise under Attack……Page 145
46. Stocks, Bonds & Fools……Page 146
47. Salomon Bro’s Scandal……Page 149
48. Nine Myths about The Crash……Page 152
49. Michael Milken……Page 156
50. Panic on Wall Street……Page 159
51. Govt – Business Partnerships……Page 162
52. Airport Congestion……Page 165
53. Airline Re-regulation……Page 168
54. Xerox at 25……Page 171
55. War on The Car……Page 173
Part V: Fiscal Mysteries Revealed……Page 177
56. Are we Undertaxed?……Page 178
57. Return of the Tax Credit……Page 180
58. Deductibility and Subsidy……Page 183
59. That Gasoline Tax……Page 184
60. Babbitry and Taxes……Page 188
61. Flat Tax or Flax Taxpayer?……Page 190
62. Mrs Thatcher’s Poll Tax……Page 193
63. Exit the Iron Lady……Page 195
64. The Budget Crisis……Page 198
65. Balanced-budget Amendment Hoax……Page 201
Part VI: Economic Ups & Downs……Page 204
66. Business Cycles……Page 205
67. Inflationary Recession……Page 207
68. Deflation……Page 210
69. Bush and the Recession……Page 214
70. Lessons of the Recession……Page 218
Part VII: The Fiat Money Plague……Page 223
71. World Currency Crisis……Page 224
72. New International Money Scheme……Page 228
73. Attacking the Franc……Page 230
74. Back to Fixed Exchange Rates……Page 234
75. The Cross of Fixed Exchange Rates……Page 237
76. The Keynesian Dream……Page 241
77. Money Inflation & Price Inflation……Page 243
78. Bank Crisis!……Page 246
79. Anatomy of the Bank Run……Page 250
80. The S & L Mess……Page 252
81. Inflation Redux……Page 257
82. Inflation Spin Doctors……Page 259
83. Alan Greenspan……Page 261
84. The Mysterious Fed……Page 263
85. First Step back to Gold……Page 266
Part VIII: Economics Beyond the Borders……Page 269
86. Free Trade in Perspective……Page 270
87. The Nafta Myth……Page 273
88. Life after Nafta?……Page 277
89. The Steel Steal……Page 279
90. Crusade against South Africa……Page 283
91. Are Diamonds Forever?……Page 285
92. Oil Prices Again……Page 288
93. Intervene in Arabia?……Page 291
94. A Trip to Poland……Page 295
95. Peru and the Free Market……Page 297
96. Gold Standard for Russia?……Page 299
97. Bail out Gorby?……Page 302
98. Welcome the Vietnamese……Page 305
Part IX: The End of Collectivism……Page 307
99. Collapse of Socialism……Page 308
100. The Freedom Revolution……Page 310
101. How to Desocialize?……Page 313
102. Radical Prescription for Socialists……Page 315
103. Socialist Stock Market?……Page 318
104. Glorious Postwar World……Page 321
105. Revolution Comes Home……Page 323
106. Trouble with Quick Fixes……Page 327
Part X: Our Intellectual Debts……Page 331
107: William Hutt……Page 332
108. Friedrich von Hayek……Page 335
109. Orval Watts……Page 338
110. Margit von Mises……Page 340
111. The Mises Institute……Page 342
Postscript……Page 348
The November Revolution……Page 349
List of Articles……Page 376