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Volume 22, Number 1, January 1993

`"But Is It Art?" by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington Author, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer`

Preview: It's an old adage that if you want to gauge the health of a nation like America, you must look beyond its political power and its economic resources to its culture. Art is one of the most powerful and moving forms of culture we know. But in looking at the art world today, what we see all too often is merely cynicism, nihilism and exploitation. "Is this really art? Is there no connection between art and morality?"--these are the kind of questions we are asking with increasing frequency. This Imprimis issue addresses them in no uncertain terms. Mrs. Huffington's remarks were delivered during Hillsdale's Center for Constructive Alternatives seminar, "Culture Wars" in March 1992.

An ASCII version form with a very small freeware MSDOS file viewer and print program is available. This ASCII version is formatted for all computer platforms. All textfiles for the year 1992 are now in one ZIP file. The filename is: IO/IMPR93.ZIP.

Volume 22, Number 2, February 1993

"Free Trade in the 1990s" "'Economic Justice' and the Chimera of Special Interest Politics" by James Bovard Author, Fair Trade Fraud "Economic Freedom and a New Liberal International Order" by Richard M. Ebeling Ludwig von Mises Chair, Hillsdale College "The Technological Revolution: Destroying Global Economic Barriers" by Richard McKenzie Professor of Economics, University of California-Irvine Author, Quicksilver Capital "A Monetary System for the Global Economy" by Judy Shelton Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Author, The Coming Soviet Crash "An Open Letter to the President: Free Trade Works" Dick Armey U.S. House of Representatives (R-TX)

Preview: The 19th annual Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series at Hillsdale College was held in the spring of 1992, just as the issue of free trade was again becoming a headline issue in American politics. The benefits of a free global economy are egalitarian; it is true that "a rising tide lifts all boats." Free trade is not, according to the old mercantilist thinking, some zero sum game in which one nation or one individual wins at the expense of another. It offers a higher standard of living for all, dramatically improved goods and services, and an international division of labor that makes such goods and services for the first time affordable even for the poor, while creating millions of new jobs around the world.

Throughout his life, the economist Ludwig von Mises argued that one of the fundamental causes of war among nations was economic nationalism. When nations look upon one another as economic enemies rather than as potential trading partners, their governments resort to political and economic intervention, retarding their own citizens' material well-being and creating conditions ripe for international tension and conflict. Free trade and peaceful market competition, Mises claimed, were the means for both prosperity and peace.