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The Kingdom of Caution

The Kingdom of Caution

by Joshua Teitelbaumvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The land where stability vies ceaselessly with stagnation. By Joshua Teitelbaum.

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Tear Up That Lousy Contract

by Robert J. Barrovia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The economic crisis did at least one good thing: it forced us all to take a long, hard look at the enormous power of public-employee unions. By Robert J. Barro.

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in 1980

Trial of a Thousand Years

by Charles Hillvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Behind the headlines lies an old and basic question: in the clash between Islamism and the nation-state, who will win? By Charles Hill.

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Singapore is among the celebrated Asian “tiger” nations

Tigers of a Different Stripe

by William Ratliffvia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

After their revolutionary fever cools, Arabs will have work to do. They could do worse than to emulate the booming Asian nations. By William Ratliff.

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Merowe Dam in Sudan

Lands of Little Rain

by Stephen Haber, Victor Menaldovia Hoover Digest
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Drought may not be destiny, but a critical ingredient for democratic societies does seem literally to fall from the skies. By Stephen H. Haber and Victor Menaldo.

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Sound Recordings in the Mont Pèlerin Society

Sound Recordings in the Mont Pèlerin Society Records Digitized

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

More than fifty audiotapes in the records of the Mont Pèlerin Society, an international organization of laissez-faire economists, have been digitized for preservation and access by Hoover's audio lab. Many of the tapes contain proceedings of four of the society's meetings, held from 1956 to 1960. The 1958 meeting, in Princeton, New Jersey, featured Friedrich A. von Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, William H. Hutt, and other economists discussing the welfare state, agricultural economics, inflation, and monetary policy.

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Trial of a Thousand Years
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Trial of a Thousand Years

by Charles Hillvia Hoover Institution Press
Thursday, May 5, 2011

Charles Hill analyzes the refusal of the ideologues of pan-Islam to accept the boundaries and responsibilities of the order of states.

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Oral histories: George Shultz

via C-SPAN
Saturday, April 9, 2011

George Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, former secretary of state, and former secretary of labor and secretary of the Treasury during the Nixon administration, recalls his work in the administration – including his philosophy and strategies on labor and economic issues. He also details his behind-the-scenes efforts on behalf of school desegregation.

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Firing Line with William F. Buckley

Thirty More Firing Line DVDs on Amazon.com

Thursday, April 7, 2011

The DVDs of thirty additional programs from William F. Buckley’s Firing Line television series are now available on Amazon.com. Featured guests on those programs, which date from 1967 to 1993, include Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Malcolm Muggeridge, Milton Friedman, Elspeth Huxley, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Mother Teresa, and the Dalai Lama.

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The Founding Documents of Economic Freedom

by Paul R. Gregoryvia What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Friday, April 1, 2011

In revising my Comparing Economic Systems in the 21st Century, I was struck by the relevance of the writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Adam Smith to our current political-economic debates...

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