Articles From April 2009
Features
Globalization: Extending the Market and Human Well-BeingBy Gennady Stolyarov II
This article was the winning entry in FEE’s first annual Eugene S. Thorpe Essay Contest. The commens...
Somalia: Failed State, Economic Success?By Benjamin Powell
This article draws heavily on his research in “Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?”...
Too Big to SucceedBy Less Antman
One widely cited culprit for the 2008 financial crisis was a supposed decision by the U.S. government...
A Microeconomist’s ProtestBy Mario Rizzo
The Keynesian worldview seems to have led to increasing stridency and dogmatism about economic stimulus,...
The Trouble with KeynesBy Roger W. Garrison
This article is reprinted from the October 1993 Freeman. The economics of John Maynard Keynes as taught...
Recycling Discredited IdeasBy Peter Lewin
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong,...
Columns
Recycling Discredited IdeasBy Peter Lewin
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong,...
Madoff is a PikerBy John Stossel
Bernard Madoff, who stands accused of bilking sophisticated investors out of $50 billion, reportedly...
Where Does Your Vote Really Count?By Walter E. Williams
To encourage us to participate in the political process, we are told that every vote counts. That is...
On the Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle, Part IIBy Donald J. Boudreaux
In my previous column I reported that the sustained and substantial economic growth over the past several...
The Sage of TampaBy Lawrence W. Reed
“The natural progress of things,” according to Thomas Jefferson, “is for government to gain...
The NRA: How Price-Fixing Perpetuated the Great DepressionBy Burton W. Folsom Jr.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s the first thing to be sacrificed was free markets. Industrialists,...
Book Reviews
The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and ProsperityBy E. Frank Stephenson
The primary characters in The Price of Everything are Ruth Lieber, an economics professor and provost...
The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and IllegalBy Daniel Griswold
In his new book Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies argues that immigration may have...
Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private PropertyBy George C. Leef
The framers of the Constitution were acutely aware that politics—even in the highly limited democracy...
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of AfricaBy Daniel Sacks
The escalating price of oil, the world’s growing population, and its increasing demand for food have...
Departments
Paul Krugman Flunks Capital TheoryBy Sheldon Richman
Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is said to have bested commentator George Will...
T. Boone Pickens is Right About Oil Imports? It Just Ain’t So!By E. Frank Stephenson
Folksy oilman T. Boone Pickens has taken to the television and radio airwaves with a $58 million campaign...
