Archive for Charlotte A. Twight
Designing Dependence
Government now permeates American life, shaping and determining in countless ways the choices available to us. As Tocqueville feared, the U.S. government has largely succeeded in its efforts to spare us “all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living.” Through Social Security, Medicare, public education, and the rest, the sphere of autonomous [...]
1May2002 | Charlotte A. Twight | 1 comment | ContinuedA Constitutional Counterrevolution
Charlotte Twight is a professor of economics at Boise State University. She is the author of Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans. Given America’s carefully crafted constitutional restrictions on central government power, how is it that intrusive federal powers over the lives of ordinary Americans took root [...]
1Oct2000 | Charlotte A. Twight | 0 comments | ContinuedOrigins of Federal Control Over Education
Charlotte Twight is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at Boise State University. Extensive federal control over elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education has long been a reality in the United States. The key federal statutes that gave rise to that control were the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA) and [...]
1Dec1994 | Charlotte A. Twight | 2 comments | Continued-
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