Dark Horses

As if to make up for all those books published in the past touting Keynesianism and the controlled economy, of late these free-market jobs just keep on coming. Among the latest is Bound to Be Free (Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, Calif. 94305; $15.95), by Richard B. McKenzie, a professor of economics at Clemson University.

So often are the virtues of free enterprise stated these days, and so real are they, that their recapitulation stands some risk of becoming redundant, and even tedious. Itisasif, after a couple of decades of anti-marriage sentiment, we must hear repeated over and over two millennia’s worth of wholly prosaic arguments in favor of the institution of matrimony (and come to think of it, we must). McKenzie skates perilously close to the brink of tedium at times, and yet he has succeeded in giving his book a dimension that causes it to penetrate beyond the economic argument and to put economic freedom in a light which, although it has been cast before, is effectively—at times brilliantly —thrown here.

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As if to make up for all those books published in the past touting Keynesianism and the controlled economy, of late these free-market jobs just keep on coming. Among the latest is Bound to Be Free (Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, Calif. 94305; $15.95), by Richard B. McKenzie, a professor of economics at Clemson University.

So often are the virtues of free enterprise stated these days, and so real are they, that their recapitulation stands some risk of becoming redundant, and even tedious. Itisasif, after a couple of decades of anti-marriage sentiment, we must hear repeated over and over two millennia’s worth of wholly prosaic arguments in favor of the institution of matrimony (and come to think of it, we must). McKenzie skates perilously close to the brink of tedium at times, and yet he has succeeded in giving his book a dimension that causes it to penetrate beyond the economic argument and to put economic freedom in a light which, although it has been cast before, is effectively—at times brilliantly —thrown here.