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Commentary

Socialism Was Never Great

Socialism Was Never Great: Not even Mikhail Gorbachev could fix the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

K. Lloyd Billingsley | Sep. 9, 2022

Could America Go the Way of the Soviet Union?

Judy L. Shelton | Sep. 7, 2022

Floating Exchange Rates Add to Economic Uncertainty

Floating Exchange Rates Add to Economic Uncertainty: Instability brings problems for the U.S. and Europe—and serious crises to the developing nations.

Steve H. Hanke | Aug. 9, 2022

Flashpoints of Potential Escalation in the Ukraine War

Ivan Eland | July 28, 2022

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Book Reviews

Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny

By Donald T. Critchlow
Reviewed By Yuri N. Maltsev

Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation into Tyranny

By Donald T. Critchlow
Reviewed By Yuri N. Maltsev

The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth ...

Reviewed By Antonios M. Koumpias

The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

Reviewed By Antonios M. Koumpias

After Brexit, What Next? Trade, Regulation and Economic Growth

Reviewed By Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr.

After Brexit, What Next? Trade, Regulation and Economic Growth

Reviewed By Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr.

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Research

Keynes, Russian Economic Thought, and Contemporary Policy

By Marianne Johnson, Alexander Kovzik
The Independent Review | Apr. 1, 2022

The Collapse of Communism

By Karen LaFollette Araujo, Paul Craig Roberts
Article | Jan. 14, 2022

Why Italy’s Season of Economic Liberalism Did Not Last

By Alberto Mingardi
The Independent Review | May 1, 2021

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Independent Institute Books

Videos

“Trump Visits the U.K.” Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland ...

Battle for Independence in Catalonia: Sr. Fellow Ivan ...

Senior Fellow Ben Powell on Fox Business Network on ...

Ivan Eland on Greece’s Credit Crisis

Ivan Eland on Germany’s Angela Merkel: Most Powerful ...

Ivan Eland: Ukrainian Economy Nears Collapse

Ivan Eland on the Russia/Ukraine Ceasefire

Ivan Eland: “What’s Next for Russia-Ukraine ...

Ivan Eland on Russian/European Politics & Sanctions

Ivan Eland Discusses Economic Sanctions on Russia

Eland on CrossTalk: Ukrainian Truce?

Ivan Eland on the Future of Ukraine

Ivan Eland: Escalating Violence in Ukraine

Ivan Eland: Obama Calls for United Front Against Russia

Ivan Eland on Ukraine Peace Process—Sanctions ...

Ivan Eland on Crisis in Slavyansk Ukraine

Ivan Eland on Pro-Russian Activists in Eastern Ukraine

Ivan Eland on Arise TV

Ivan Eland on Latest Events in Russia, Crimea and Ukraine

Ivan Eland on Meeting Between President Obama and Ukraine ...

Coup Against Ukraine’s President Yanukovych?

Ivan Eland on Russian Aid to Ukraine

Obama and Putin: A Summit that Wasn’t

Economic Liberty Lecture Series: Benjamin Powell

Benjamin Powell on Europe’s Budget Solution

Lessons from the Poor: The Power of Entrepreneurship

National Dinner to Honor Robert A. Conquest

Audio

“Default or Defeat for Russia’s Putin” Sr. Fellow Judy Shelton is interviewed on The John Batchelor radio show
Apr. 1, 2022

Brexit - An Economist's Reaction. Research Fellow Robert P. Murphy, appears on the Marc Cox show on FM News Talk 97.1 in St. Louis
June 24, 2016

Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich appears on the Larry Elder radio show on KRLA
Oct. 9, 2015

What Americans Should Learn from the British Election
May 13, 2015

Eland on Russian and Ukraine Crisis
July 24, 2014

Ivan Eland on Financial Survival Network
Mar. 20, 2014

Financing Failure? The European Debt Crises
Dec. 12, 2011