Archive for Bill Field
In Defense of Grocery Coupons
Bill Field is a professor of economics at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. We’ve all had this aggravating experience: rushing through the grocery store to finish our shopping, hurriedly looking for the shortest line, congratulating ourselves as we get in a line with only one lady in front of us, and then wanting to [...]
1Mar2000 | Bill Field | 1 comment | ContinuedTwo Lucky People
I still remember, after more than 30 years, my mounting excitement as I read Capitalism and Freedom for the first time and discovered the wondrous moral and economic benefits of being “free to choose.” Reading it changed my professional life. Here was solid economic reasoning, but economics with a heart, and—unbelievably—economics that was exciting. All [...]
1Aug1999 | Bill Field | 0 comments | Continued-
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