Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the following people for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this book: Ljubisa Adamovic, Terry Anderson, John W. Cooper, Jack Fay, Randall Holcombe, Tom Palmer, Judd W. Patton, Scott W. Rasmussen, Jane S. Shaw, Russell S. Sobel, Carol Strauss, and Sharon Watson. They would also like to express their appreciation to the Philip M. McKenna Foundation and the Earhart Foundation for funding which facilitated the project, to Valerie N. Colvin for her excellent work on the word-processing, and to Kristin McCahon for her design of the Canadian edition.

Additional books by Gwartney and Stroup

For more thorough coverage of the principles outlined in this book, see James D. Gwartney and Richard L. Stroup's, Economics: Private and Public Choice, 6th edition, 1992 (ISBN 0-15-518921-2) and Introduction to Economics: The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, 1st edition, 1993 (ISBN 0-03-098291-X). Both are published by the Dryden Press, a division of Harcourt Brace & Company.