Articles From September 2009
Features
In Defense of IdeologyBy Mario Rizzo
There have been many statements recently to the effect that we should not let “ideology”...
The Myth of Unregulated TobaccoBy Bruce Yandle
On June 22, President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), a...
Transforming America: The Bush-Obama Stimulus ProgramsBy Randall G. Holcombe
George W. Bush’s and Barack Obama’s “stimulus” programs will permanently transform...
A Triple Whammy for Austrian EconomicsBy Sanford Ikeda
They say that when economic times are good businesses can get away with sloppy practices. In the intellectual...
The Case for CapitalismBy Henry Hazlitt
This article is from Henry Hazlitt’s September 19, 1949 Newsweek column. There has just been published...
What Human Action Has Meant to Me: Reflections of a Young EconomistBy Peter T. Leeson
I remember well when I discovered Human Action. I remember because it has had the profoundest influence...
Human Action: The Treatise in EconomicsBy Peter J. Boettke
“Next week we will discuss the master’s work.” So stated Dr. Hans Sennholz to close...
Human Action: The 60th AnniversaryBy Bettina Bien Greaves
We are celebrating the 60th anniversary of a great book, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, by a...
Human Action, 1949: A Dramatic Episode in Intellectual HistoryBy Israel M. Kirzner
A great book, it has been remarked, is like a great castle. It can be viewed from many different angles,...
Columns
Competition Would Save Medicine, TooBy John Stossel
Competition so regularly brings us better stuff—cars, phones, shoes, medicine—that we’ve come to...
EFCA and CompromiseBy Charles W. Baird
As proposed, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would 1) replace secret-ballot union representation...
The Rise of Big Business and the Growth of GovernmentBy Robert Higgs
Most people learn about the relation between the rise of big business and the growth of government in...
In the Grip of MadnessBy Lawrence W. Reed
“Thank God we had the federal government last week to bail out the private sector!” That...
Book Reviews
One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We OweBy David L. Littmann
In his latest work, One Nation Under Debt, Robert E. Wright, who has written extensively about debt and...
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to EconomicsBy George Leef
For years the series of Complete Idiot’s Guide books has been a great commercial success, dealing...
The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs LivesBy Art Carden
Without private property rights, people have incentives to overuse an asset. Conflicting private property...
New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged AmericaBy Robert Higgs
Not everyone loved President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even in 1936, when he enjoyed his most lopsided electoral...
Departments
Saving Is Killing the Economy?By Steven Horwitz
In the midst of the current recession, many of the oldest fallacies in economics are making a comeback....
Human Action as a Work of ArtBy Sheldon Richman
What can one say briefly about Human Action? When it was being written and people would ask what it was...
