Archive for Aaron Steelman

Regulation by Reputation on the Net: Business

Aaron Steelman is a writer in Falls Church, Virginia. When I started collecting sports cards in the early 1980s, there were basically two places to purchase memorabilia: at shops owned by veteran collectors and at shows where dealers from around the country would rent tables to display their goods. Today, the hobby is different. There [...]

1Apr2001 | Aaron Steelman | 2 comments | Continued

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

John Gray’s new book, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, is exasperating. Gray makes big predictions, such as: “There can no longer be much doubt that we are approaching a major upheaval in the international economic system. It is a pretty safe bet that, a few years hence, it will be difficult to find [...]

1Jun2000 | Aaron Steelman | 2 comments | Continued

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

Amazing progress has been made in the twentieth century. The Western world has grown tremendously rich, and many developing countries around the world have “emerged.” Today, most people enjoy living conditions that their ancestors could have only dreamed about. But the twentieth century has also witnessed horrific brutality. Millions have been killed in wars. And [...]

1Oct1999 | Aaron Steelman | 0 comments | Continued

J.-B. Say: An Economist in Troubled Times

Aaron Steelman is a reporter with Investor’s Business Daily. Jean-Baptiste Say is best known as the formulator of “Say’s Law”—the dictum that overproduction can never be more than a transitory phenomenon—and as a popularizer of the ideas of Adam Smith. But he was much more than that. Indeed, he made important contributions to several branches [...]

1Aug1998 | Aaron Steelman | 0 comments | Continued

The Free Market and Scientific Research

Aaron Steelman is staff writer at the Cato Institute. Opponents of classical liberalism frequently argue that if scientific research is to be done, it must be done by the state. Private organizations, it is claimed, are too myopic to conduct research that frequently has no immediate value. That attitude has manifested itself recently in discussion [...]

1May1998 | Aaron Steelman | 1 comment | Continued

Take the Rich Off Welfare by Mark Zepezauer and Arthur Naiman

Odonian Press • 1996 • 191 pages • $9.00 Aaron Steelman is staff writer at the Cato Institute. Corporate welfare has become a favorite target of political activists across the ideological spectrum. Free-market groups such as the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Citizens for a Sound Economy, and Americans for Tax Reform have joined forces with Public [...]

1Feb1998 | Aaron Steelman | 0 comments | Continued

The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia by Brad Miner

Free Press 1996 318 pages $15.00 Mr. Steelman is a staff writer at the Cato Institute. The free-market movement in the United States has prospered tremendously over the past 20 years. Dozens of market-oriented think tanks and journals have been created, and an increasing number of students are becoming interested in the ideas of liberty. [...]

1Sep1997 | Aaron Steelman | 0 comments | Continued

Frank Chodorov: Champion of Liberty

Mr. Steelman is a staff writer at the Cato Institute. December 28, 1996, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Frank Chodorov, one of the giants of the American Old Right. It seems appropriate to look back at his life and career, not only to pay homage, but also to rediscover some of the [...]

1Dec1996 | Aaron Steelman | 1 comment | Continued

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