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“The Taxing Power, My Dear”
The legal committee soon broke into a row because the legal problems were so terrible. The constitutional problem was the greatest one. How could you get around this business of the State-Federal relationships? It seemed that couldn’t be done. We continued to wrangle about it for days. But one day I went out to tea, [...]
12Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Was There Money in the Original “Star Trek”? To the Editor: In the December 2004 issue of The Freeman, P. Gardner Goldsmith criticizes “Star Trek” for foolishly postulating that we could do without money. He presents us with an argument of the following structure: X is stupid; someone told him that “Star Trek” creator Gene [...]
8Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Where Is the Dollar Defined? To the Editor: I was belatedly reading in the November 2003 issue of Ideas on Liberty when I came across something that caught my eye. This was the statement in George Leef’s book review of Pieces of Eight by Edwin Vieira, Jr., claiming that the Constitution defined a dollar as [...]
6Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Don’t Let the Court Off the Hook To the Editor: As a former wartime draftee — the Korean War — I’m of two minds re Aeon J. Skoble’s “Neither Slavery Nor Involuntary Servitude” piece in your September issue (“It Just Ain’t So!). No question, he did a very good job of picking apart the operational [...]
6Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedCapital Letters
Can There Be Free Trade in a Mixed Economy? To the Editor: Although I don’t see any flaws in your arguments about the theory of free trade in your column for the April 2004 issue of The Freeman, you should at least acknowledge the distortions in most any nation’s economy because of government intervention and [...]
5Jul2010 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
What Do We Do About the Subsidy of History? I concurred on one point with “The Subsidy of History” by Kevin Carson (June 2008). It is not sound to view the historical development of capitalism as though it evolved strictly by fairness, without including the vices of mankind. Surely history is better stated by Burton [...]
1Nov2008 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedCapital Letters
Are Corporations Islands of “Calculational Chaos”? According to Kevin Carson (“Hierarchy or the Market,” The Freeman, April 2008), a private business corporation is in effect “an island of calculational chaos in the market economy.” . . . Carson writes, “Those at the top make decisions concerning a production process about which they likely know as [...]
1Sep2008 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedCapital Letters
Thanks to Milton Friedman’s brilliance, charisma, and diplomacy he became an ardent spokesman for many free-market reforms in this country. And now Ivan Pongracic, Jr. (“The Great Depression According to Milton Friedman,” September 2007) gives him credit for accomplishing what seems miraculous—convincing Fed officials that the Fed itself was responsible for precipitating the crash and [...]
1Dec2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedJohn Dewey and the Decline of American Education
by Henry T. Edmondson, III Reviewed by Terry Stoops
1Jul2007 | FEE Admin | 2 comments | ContinuedSocialism after Hayek
By Theodore A. Burczak Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Jul2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedImpostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy
By Bruce Bartlett Reviewed by William B. Conerly
1May2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedImmigrants: Your Country Needs Them
By Philippe Legrain Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1May2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedModern Liberty and the Limits of Government
By Charles Fried Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Apr2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedThe End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
By Jeffrey D. Sachs Reviewed by Jude Blanchette
1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedRe-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy
Edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close Reviewed by Michael Sanera
1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedLeviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservatism Brought Down the Republican Revolution
By Michael D. Tanner Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedStalin: A Biography
By Robert Service Reviewed by Yuri Maltsev
1Jan2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | Continued-
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