Fall 2024

I will respond to the Barkan and Belkin points seriatim. On government control of investment: There have been, and are, selective credit controls in many capitalist countries, and the “lobbying hordes” that Barkan and Belkin fear have not swept down …

Since the fall from power of the ruling parties in Eastern Europe during the amazing events of autumn 1989, most commentators in the West and the East have proclaimed the death of communism. If communism is defined as consisting of …