Toward liberty : the idea that is changing the world : 25 years of public policy from the Cato Institute / / edited by David Boaz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911004895803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Cato Institute, c2002
• ISBN: 9786611905651; 9781281905659; 1281905658; 9781933995878; 1933995874; 9781597340687; 1597340685
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (472 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BoazDavid <1953-2024.>
• Disciplina: 320.011; 320/.6
• Soggetti: Liberty; Free enterprise; Policy sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Introduction: The Idea That is Changing the World; Part I: Ideas and Consequences; Interview with F.A. Hayek; Liberalism in the New Millennium; Disregard of Reality; Part II: Economic Growth; The Real Free Lunch: Markets and Private Property; The Soft Infrastructure of a Market Economy; The Causes of Economic Growth; Part III: The Welfare State; Deregulating the Poor; Social Security: Has the Crisis Passed?; The Success of Chile's Privatized Social Security; Ending Welfare as We Know It; Preschool in the Nanny State; Part IV: The Regulatory State; The High Cost of Government RegulationEnviro-Capitalism vs. Environmental Statism; Federal Deposit Insurance Source of S&L Crisis; Parasite Economy Latches onto New Host; Part V: A World in Transition; Fear and Loathing in the Soviet Union; The Strikes in Poland: Workers against the Workers' State; Let a Billion Flowers Bloom; Prospects for ; Peaceful Change in South Africa; Transition in the East: Democracy and Market; The Communist Road to Self-Enslavement; China's Quiet Property Rights Revolution; Why Socialkism Collapsed in Eastern Europe; Systematic Change: The Delicate Mixture of Intentions and SpontaneityPrivate Education Emerges in China; China's Future: Market Socialism or Market Taoism?; Part VI: Foreign Affairs; From Republic to Empire: The Constitution and the Evolution of U.S. Foreign Policy; The Case for U.S. Strategic Independence; Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism?; Fool's Errands?; Part VII: Trade and International Finance; The Globalization of Finance; Using the Market for Social Development; Free Trade from the Bottom Up; The Asian Crisis: Why the IMF Should Not Intervene; Part VIII: Law and Liberty; Economic Affairs as Human AffairsJudicial Review: Reckoning on Two Kinds of Error; The Constitutional Protection of Economic Freedom; National Emergency and the Erosion of Private Property Rights; The Forgotten Ninth and Tenth Amendments; Disolving the Inkblot: Privacy as Property Right; Clinton's Chilling Constitutional Legacy; The War on Drugs; Part IX: Democracy and Culture; Myths of Individualism; Rights and Responsibilities; The Right to Do as You Please and Take the Consequences; Are Libertarians Anti-Government?; Creating a World of Free Men; Is Our Culture in Decline?; Affirmative Action Can't Be MendedThe Future of Liberty
• Sommario/riassunto: In this collection, scholars and political leaders make the case for freedom, free enterprise, and the rule of law.