The Independent Review Magazine - Summer 2024

In this issue

President Martin Van Buren viewed immigration as one battle in a struggle between the common man and the rent-seeking financial elite. Tammany Hall and the political machines that followed it adopted Van Buren’s political paradigm out of electoral expediency. Also in this issue: Living Standards and Sweatshop Wages, American Intellectual Conservatism, Nicholas Rescher’s Quest for a Good Society, the Real Economic Function of Inflation, and much more!

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