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Vol. 23 No. 2

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Foreign Aid, Freedom, and Growth

Articles

  • Aid, Policies, and Growth: Bauer Was Right

    By Harold J. Brumm PDF
  • The Failure of Development Aid

    By Tomi Ovaska PDF
  • The Contribution of Economic Freedom to World Economic Growth: 1980–99

    By Julio H. Cole PDF
  • Economic Growth and Freedom: A Causality Study

    By Manuel Vega-Gordillo and José L. Álvarez-Arce PDF
  • Entrenching Economic Freedom in Africa

    By John Mukum Mbaku PDF
  • Explaining Botswana’s Success: The Critical Role of Post-Colonial Policy

    By Scott A. Beaulier PDF
  • F. A. Hayek and the Common Law

    By Ronald Hamowy PDF
  • Deposit Insurance and Banking Crises in the Short and Long Run

    By Kam Hon Chu PDF
  • A Simple Solution to China’s Pension Crisis

    By David D. Li and Ling Li PDF
  • Replacing the Corporate Income Tax with a Cash-Flow Tax

    By Chris Edwards PDF
  • Meltzer’s History of the Federal Reserve and the Evolution of Central Banking

    By Richard H. Timberlake Jr. PDF

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  • The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century by Robert J. Shiller

    reviewed by Kevin Dowd PDF
  • Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity by Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales

    reviewed by Brink Lindsey PDF
  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development by David A. Harper

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