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Of Bread And Circuses

by Ben Moreell

The Freeman, January 1956, pp. 29-32

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    4. The Perfect Price by Benjamin F. Fairless, pp. 15-19
    5. News from Irvington by Charles Hull Wolfe, pp. 20-21
    6. Two Points of View by Edmund A. Opitz, pp. 22-27
    7. Contented Slavery by Ralph Bradford, p. 28
    8. Of Bread And Circuses by Ben Moreell, pp. 29-32
    9. Why Pay for Things? by F.A. Harper, pp. 33-34
    10. On Campus, p. 35
    11. The Philosophy of Reading by Ralph M. Besse, pp. 36-41
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    15. Well Worth Reading, p. 47
    16. Letters, p. 48
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    1. Free-Market Farming by W.M. Curtiss, pp. 1-8
    2. As Frank Chodorov Sees It by Frank Chodorov, pp. 9-13
    3. Black Magic by Edmund A. Opitz, pp. 14-16
    4. White Magic by Leonard E. Read, pp. 17-19
    5. The Fourth Dimension by Henry Hazlitt, pp. 20-21
    6. If There Were No Capitalism by W.H. Chamberlin, pp. 22-28
    7. High School Economics by Thomas J. Shelly, pp. 29-31
    8. The Longer We Live by Allen W. Rucker, pp. 32-36
    9. A New Scheme by F.A. Harper, pp. 37-38
    10. The Growth of an Idea, pp. 39-47
    11. Facts about the by Ludwig Von Mises, pp. 48-55
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    15. Letters, pp. 63-64
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    1. The Graduated Gadinkus Tax by F.A. Harper, pp. 1-5
    2. Executive Incentive by Crawford H. Greenewalt, pp. 6-8
    3. As Frank Chodorov Sees It by Frank Chodorov, pp. 9-13
    4. The Case for the Private School by George S. Schuyler, pp. 14-16
    5. The Real Revolution and You by Ivan R. Bierly, pp. 17-24
    6. A Duty of Management by Ben Moreell, p. 25
    7. High Taxes in Britain by John Heffernan, pp. 26-29
    8. Town Meetings-1956 Style by Charles Hull Wolfe, pp. 30-36
    9. The Road to Absolutism by Joseph.I. Call, pp. 37-40
    10. On Campus, p. 41
    11. Why Wages Rise by F.A. Harper, pp. 42-45
    12. The Voluntary Basis of Trade Unionism by Samuel Gompers, p. 46
    13. Economics, Inter Alia by Paul L. Poirot, pp. 47-52
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    17. Well Worth Reading, p. 60
    18. Letters, pp. 61-64
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    2. As Frank Chodorov Sees It by Frank Chodorov, pp. 18-21
    3. Wheat and World Trade by Paul De Hevesy, pp. 22-26
    4. Ponzi Was a Piker by Clarence E. Manion, pp. 27-28
    5. A Festschrift for Dr. Mises by Bettina Bien, pp. 29-32
    6. A Call to Liberalism by David Lawrence, pp. 33-35
    7. Why Wages Rise by F.A. Harper, pp. 36-39
    8. On That Day Began Lies by Leonard E. Read, pp. 40-51
    9. The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron, p. 52
    10. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill, pp. 53-56
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    2. Flies in the Sugar Bowl by Paul L. Poirot, pp. 6-9
    3. Lessening the President's Load by S.J. Kornhauser, pp. 10-14
    4. "Do-It-Yourself", p. 15
    5. Abolish This Evil Tax by Indianapolis Star, pp. 16-17
    6. Some Mistakes of Marx by William Henry Chamberlin, pp. 18-24
    7. A Fair Wage by C.W. Anderson, pp. 25-26
    8. Why Wages Rise by F.A. Harper, pp. 27-32
    9. Foreign Aid Fiasco by Charles Hull Wolfe, pp. 33-42
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    2. Minority Report by August E. Johansen, pp. 8-9
    3. Peace and World Government by Edmund A. Opitz, pp. 10-17
    4. The Dogma of Our Times by Frank Chodorov, pp. 18-22
    5. The Literature of Freedom by Henry Hazlitt, pp. 23-25
    6. Habeas Corpus to the Rescue by Alexander T. Jordan, pp. 26-31
    7. A Free Market by Ben Moreell, pp. 32-33
    8. Why Wages Rise by F.A. Harper, pp. 34-38
    9. Withdrawing from the Soil Bank by Marten Butler, pp. 39-40
    10. Despotism in Democratic Nations by Alexis De Tocqueville, pp. 41-46
    11. The Liberal in the Modern World by Towner Phelan, pp. 47-49
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    14. Well Worth Reading, pp. 57-58
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    4. Serving Others by Benjamin F. Fairless, pp. 16-22
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    2. Natural Laws of Human Relations by Dupuy Bateman, Jr., pp. 10-12
    3. Bums or Brothers? by Kenneth W. Sollitt, pp. 13-16
    4. Too Much Legislation, p. 17
    5. Take Off the Chains, pp. 18-20
    6. Looking Out for Yourself by Leonard E. Read, pp. 21-27
    7. Unemployment by Legal Decree by Bettina Bien, pp. 28-30
    8. Luxuries into Necessities by Ludwig Von Mises, p. 31
    9. Why Wages Rise by F.A. Harper, pp. 32-38
    10. Cabbages or Commissars by Hart Buck, pp. 39-40
    11. Our Principles of Freedom Must Stand by E. Smythe Gambrell, pp. 41-46
    12. Adequate Definition by George Schwartz, pp. 47-48
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    7. Plunder by Proxy by Leonard E. Read, pp. 37-38
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    14. Well Worth Reading, p. 64
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    2. No Rights without Property Rights by Frank Chodorov, pp. 11-14
    3. Two Directions at Once by Leonard E. Read, pp. 15-20
    4. Addiction Is an Illness by Herbert Berger, pp. 21-25
    5. What Price Socialism? by Ben Moreell, pp. 26-29
    6. Equality by Reginald Jebb, pp. 30-33
    7. Why Wages Rise by F.A. Harper, pp. 34-39
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    1. Some Observations at the Iron Curtain by F.A. Harper, pp. 2-6
    2. The Myth of Capitalist Colonialism by Hans F. Sennholz, pp. 7-14
    3. A Case of Corruption by Frank Chodorov, pp. 15-19
    4. Self-Help by Samuel Smiles, pp. 20-21
    5. The Tax Collector by Frederic Bastiat, pp. 22-25
    6. Excessive Taxation by Paul L. Poirot, pp. 26-27
    7. On Booms and Busts by Anthony M. Reinach, pp. 28-29
    8. Politics in the Market Place by Edmund A. Opitz, pp. 30-37
    9. Of Man and Masses by Evelyn F. Brines, pp. 38-39
    10. Practical Philosophy by Ben Moreell, pp. 40-42
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    12. International Commodity Agreements by Adam K. Stricker, Jr., pp. 51-54
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    14. Well Worth Reading, p. 60
    15. Letters, pp. 61-64
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    2. A Seeming Paradox about Inflation by F.A. Harper, pp. 9-13
    3. The Tight Money Delusion by Anthony Reinach, pp. 14-15
    4. The Great Guessing Game by A.Z. Nelson, pp. 16-22
    5. Unearned Riches by Leonard E. Read, pp. 23-30
    6. Isaiah's Job by Albert J. Nock, pp. 31-37
    7. The Calf-Path by Sam Walter Foss, pp. 38-40
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    13. Letters, pp. 62-63
    14. Time to Read, p. 64
    15. Publications, pp. 65-74
    16. Index to Volume VI, pp. 75-96
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