Articles From December 2007

Bad Policy Drives Out Good
by Sheldon Richman

All public policies are related. Okay, that may be a slight overstatement, but there’s a point... 

Uneven Information Causes Market Failure?
by Joshua C. Hall

In a famous 1970 paper, economics Nobel Laureate George Akerlof used the market for used cars to show... 

Capital Letters
by FEE Admin

Thanks to Milton Friedman’s brilliance, charisma, and diplomacy he became an ardent spokesman for... 

Book Reviews – December 2007
by George C. Leef

Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World by Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu Oxford University... 

Index 2007
by Beth A. Hoffman

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Casualties of the War on Poverty
by Christopher Lingle

Newspapers around the world recently carried a news item that seems to be a damning indictment of the... 

Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It
by Charles Johnson

The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces... 

The Fear of Free Trade
by Mark W. Hendrickson

It’s hard to think of an issue that is more polarized than the one between free traders and protectionists.... 

Immigration Control, Circa AD 175
by Harold B. Jones Jr.

Last January the Wall Street Journal reported on the aftermath of federal agents’ success in rounding... 

In Praise of an Uncommon Woman
by Lawrence W. Reed

Popular literature is full of praises for “the common man,” but I am much more impressed by the men... 

Marching to Bismarck’s Drummer: The Origins of the Modern Welfare State
by Richard M. Ebeling

Soviet socialism may now be a thing of the past, but there is one form of statism that still dominates... 

The Medicalization of Everyday Life
by Thomas S. Szasz M.D.

In my October column I discussed the concept of medicalization and its role in modern societies. In this... 

The Real Argument about Government
by Stephen Davies

A lot of contemporary political debate centers on how big government should be. The debate tends to have... 

Medical Competition Works for Patients
by John Stossel

Health-care costs overall have been rising faster than inflation, but not all medical costs are skyrocketing.... 

The Lesson of Ebenezer Scrooge
by David R. Henderson

In 2003, I co-led a successful fight against Measure Q, which would have increased the Monterey County,...