Archive for Bruce M. Evans
Perspective: Remembering Who We Are
The election of national leaders brings forth feelings of anxiety and expectancy. Yet, change often carries a glimmer of hope, even in the minds of hardened realists or confirmed skeptics.
Somehow, coming off a season of defeats, a football team retains a spark of optimism that its first game can be won. Similarly, we often [...]
Perspective: The Power of Principle
Consistency of thought and behavior is indeed rare. The vagaries of life often are characterized by a continual shifting of principles and practices “to meet the demands of our modern world.” There is today, perhaps as always, a dearth of exemplars of principled life—role models of internal and social consistency and integrity.
The 90th anniversary [...]
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Government as Consumer
Destutt de Tracy, as I discussed last week, was a French economist whom Thomas Jefferson did his utmost... Read More
Profits, Losses, and Structural Change
A recurring economic theme of President Obama’s election campaign and presidency has been that previous... Read More
Underconsumption Is Not the Problem
Paul Krugman recently declared that our real economics problem is this: “What’s limiting employment... Read More
The Fruits of Imperfection
Beneath the nationalism and medal counts that seemed to dominate the Winter Olympic Games just ended... Read More
Jefferson’s Economist
In 1817 the Frenchman the Count Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) published his Treatise on the Will and... Read More
