This issue highlights the rise of Soviet entrepreneurs amid economic collapse, offering firsthand looks at risk-takers navigating a failing socialist economy. Other articles describe Cuba’s hardship and hope, critique man-made droughts caused by political rationing, explore the moral case for business ethics, and correct myths about child labor in the Industrial Revolution. Profiles of private fire-fighting, the distortions of the tax code, and the perils of “public interest” policymaking complete the volume.
