Articles From December 2009
Features
Political Bankruptcies: How Chrysler and GM Have Changed the Rules of the Gameby Richard A. Epstein
The topic of corporate bankruptcy law scarcely titillates the imagination of ordinary citizens, even...
Cash for Clunkers Was a Loserby Bruce Yandle
President Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program, inspired by the Consumer Assistance to Recycle and Save...
Why Those Who Value Liberty Should Rejoice: Elinor Ostrom’s Nobel Prizeby Peter J. Boettke
Elinor Ostrom, the first woman to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is also one of the...
Financial Crises and the Federal Reserve’s Punch Bowlby Chidem Kurdas
Why did the U.S. financial system nearly collapse last year? People blame Wall Street’s excessive greed...
The Depression You’ve Never Heard Of: 1920-1921by Robert P. Murphy
When it comes to diagnosing the causes of the Great Depression and prescribing cures for our present...
How to End Mexico’s Deadly Drug Warby Paul Armentano
Albert Einstein declared, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and...
Climate Change in the Great American Desertby Tyler Watts
President Obama’s science adviser, Dr. John Holdren, a Harvard physicist and persistent global-warming...
Columns
The Sound of Freedomby Lawrence W. Reed
When I have the chance, I often pose this question to people who have become advocates for liberty: “What...
Big Business Goes Big for Health Care Reformby John Stossel
“What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not...
From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Fourby Sheldon Richman
A longer version of this article appears at the FEE website: www.tinyurl.com/npxxet. I’m inclined to...
The Shame of Medicine: Conviction by Psychiatryby Thomas S. Szasz M.D.
In the predawn hours of June 5, 2002, Brian David Mitchell entered the bedroom of 14-year-old Elizabeth...
Ten Reasons Not to Abolish Slaveryby Robert Higgs
Slavery existed for thousands of years, in all sorts of societies and all parts of the world. To imagine...
Benedict XVI on Labor Unionsby Charles W. Baird
On June 29 Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical letter titled Caritas in Veritate (CV) in which he...
Departments
Monsieur Bastiat, Call Your Officeby Sheldon Richman
In September I lectured at the Liberty Weekend Dedicated to the Life and Legacy of Frédéric Bastiat,...
Profit is Bad for Your Health?by Art Carden
Many self-styled healthcare “reformers” favor a “public” (read: government) insurance option....
Book Reviews
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008by William L. Anderson
Reading The Return of Depression Economics, I have to admit I was surprised. Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel...
The Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bushby Joseph R. Stromberg
Steven G. Calabresi and Christopher S. Yoo count as founding fathers of the much-debated unitary executive...
The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happenby George C. Leef
If you were to believe spokesmen for the Obama regime and its allied pseudo-economists, there is no tradeoff...
