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  • Mismeasuring Poverty and Progress

    By John C. Weicher PDF
  • Loss of Textile and Apparel Jobs: Is Protectionism Warranted?

    By Richard B. McKenzie and Stephen D. Smith PDF
  • National Emergency and the Erosion of Private Property Rights

    By Robert Higgs and Charlotte Twight PDF
  • Environmental Risk Management through Insurance

    By Martin T. Katzman PDF
  • Interest Groups and the Antitrust Paradox

    By Bruce L. Benson, M. L. Greenhut and Randall G. Holcombe PDF
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    By Steven G. Craig and Joel W. Sailors PDF
  • West Germany’s Economic Policy: What Direction?

    By Peter Trapp PDF
  • Economic Significance of British Labor Law Reform

    By Charles G. Hanson PDF
  • Ethnic Utopianism and Market Reality in South Africa

    By Nelson Reid and Gary Lowe PDF
  • Establishing Property Rights in Outer Space

    By Joel D. Scheraga PDF
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    By Gary M. Anderson and Dolores T. Martin PDF
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