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A biography, Charles K. Rowley. Arthur Asher Shenfield 1909-1990 - anappreciation, Norman Barry. Part 1 Law, economy and the state: Friedrich vonHayek - Nobel prizewinner; the new thought of F.A. Hayek - his political andlegal theory; Hayek on law; equality before the law; must we abolish thestate?; the new deal and the Supreme Court. Part 2 The meaning of the market:the nature of competition; the economics system - rules versus authorities;conservatism and the liberal economy; myth and reality in anti-trust. Part 3Socialism - the fatal conceit: myth and reality in economic systems; thefailure of socialism - learning from the Swedes and the English. Part 4 Tradeunions - above the law: rise of trade union power in Britain; what about thetrade unions?; unions and national politics - Britain and the USA; Thatcher'sreform of Britain's labour unions; big government, big labour and bigbusiness - parallels true and false. Part 5 The spirit of capitalism:capitalism under the tests of ethics; sense and nonsense about thecorporation; the businessman and the politician; the roots of Americandiscontent; the ideological war against Western society; the uglyintellectual.