Feature Article #1
FDR’s Lucky Timing
On his New York Times blog page, Paul Krugman displayed a graph showing that the post-1929 U.S. economy began to expand before Franklin Roosevelt took office. Certainly the economy was recovering before... Read more
Jim Powell | July/August 2009 | Continued
Feature Article #2
What is Seen and What is Unseen: Government “Job Creation”
Barack Obama says his roughly $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan could save or create between three and four million American jobs by 2010. Many of these proposed jobs—building or repairing... Read more
Larissa Price | July/August 2009 | Continued
Feature Article #3
Dim Bulbs
“Hell, there are no rules here—we’re trying to accomplish something.” —Thomas A. Edison Edison’s words may have been true in the 1800s. Today, however, we have plenty of rules, thanks to the... Read more
Michael Heberling | July/August 2009 | Continued
Feature Article #4
In Praise of Tax Havens
“The proprietor of stock is properly a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country. He would be apt to abandon the country in which he was exposed to a vexatious inquisition,... Read more
Daniel Mitchell | July/August 2009 | Continued
Feature Article #5
From Good Samaritan to Robin Hood
Unjust forms of accumulating wealth have always been open to, and practiced by, human beings, but progress depends on the restraints placed on this type of money-making. If six billion people can be fed... Read more
Carlos Rodríguez Braun | July/August 2009 | Continued
Feature Article #6
The American Land Question
In 1934 in the depths of the Great Depression, Southern agrarian (and historian) Frank Owsley called for an American land reform. He suggested that “unemployed or underemployed families be staked to... Read more
Joseph R. Stromberg | July/August 2009 | Continued
Feature Article #7
Keynes’s Ghost
Underlying the belief that increased government spending can stimulate the economy is the “expenditure multiplier” theory formalized by Richard Kahn in 1931 and later enshrined in modern macroeconomic... Read more
James C. W. Ahiakpor | July/August 2009 | Continued
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