This collection of twenty-five essays written over the past five years by international economic policy expert Charles Wolf Jr. covers a range of worldwide economic, political, security, and diplomatic issues. Wolf looks at the challenges facing the United States at home and around the globe...

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Hoover Classics Edition -- 1. What Are Property Rights? -- 2. What Do Property Rights Do? -- 3. Where Do Property Rights Come From? -- 4. How Secure Are Property Rights? -- 5. Will Property...

In an 1873 decision, the Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote--highly unusual in those days--upheld a bribery-procured Louisiana slaughterhouse monopoly that had been challenged by a group of butchers whose businesses were jeopardized. By that decision (called the Slaughter-House cases), one of the most...

Minutes of discussion at Mont Pelerin Conference, April 1st-10th -- Session 1 : welcoming address -- Session 2 : "free" enterprise and competitive order -- Session 3 : "free" enterprise and competitive order (continued) -- Session 4 : modern historiography and political education -- Session 5 :...