Articles From March 2010
Features
Health Care and Radical Monopolyby Kevin Carson
In a recent article for Tikkun, Dr. Arnold Relman argued that the versions of health care reform currently...
Fantasy Is Not an Adult Policy Optionby Gene Callahan
The Freeman, quite understandably, has an editorial focus on the advocacy of libertarian solutions to...
Unintended Consequencesby Steven Horwitz
In two earlier Freeman essays, I explored the idea that “ought implies can” and the role of profits...
Boom and Bust: Crisis and Responseby Gerald P. O'Driscoll Jr.
America has experienced a classic economic boom and bust, which I first chronicled in the November 2007...
Theodore Roosevelt, Big-Government Manby Jim Powell
Theodore Roosevelt has been known as “the Good Roosevelt,” “the Republican Roosevelt,” and “the...
Did Locke Really Justify Limited Government?by Joseph R. Stromberg
John Locke (1632–1704) was a physician, statesman, and political philosopher, filling that last office...
Columns
Presidents and Precedentsby Lawrence W. Reed
America’s 44th president has embarked on a massive expansion of the federal establishment that, if...
Stop Insuring Mortgagesby John Stossel
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced last December that it wants tougher rules on mortgage...
The Shame of Medicine: Alan Turing Reduxby Thomas S. Szasz M.D.
In my May 2009 column I recounted the tragic story of the medical-legal persecution of the famed British...
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What Ended the Great Depression?by Burton W. Folsom Jr.
What finally ended the Great Depression? That question may be the most important in economic history....
The Market Doesn’t Ration Health Careby Sheldon Richman
Health care “reformers” say they have two objectives: to enable the uninsured and underinsured to...
A Contemptible Congress and a Derelict Courtby Walter E. Williams
What can Congress do that the Supreme Court would find unconstitutional? Or, what can Congress do that...
Departments
The Health Care Debate Was “Meaningful”?by Charles Johnson
Let’s give credit where credit is due. David Brooks does say one true thing in his New York Times column,...
Book Reviews
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Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775–1821by George C. Leef
Most people suppose, without having thought much about it, that money must be provided by government....
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Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Knowby Tim Stonesifer
Is it getting hot in here or is it just me? Likely it’s both, say Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C....
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Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution–and What It Means for Americans Todayby Art Carden
The more historical research I read and the more I contrast what economists write with what non-economists...
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Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Dealby Bettina Bien Greaves
“He who wants to improve conditions must propagate a new mentality, not merely a new institution.”...
