Archive for Clarence B. Carson
The late Clarence Carson was a prolific historian and Freeman contributor.
The General Welfare
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books, his most recent being Organized Against Whom? The Labor Union in America. He is working at present on A Basic History of the United States to be published by Western Goals, Inc. “I wish the Constitution [...]
1Aug1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Constitution And Paper Money
The United States Constitution does not mention paper money by that name. Nor does it refer to paper currency or fiat money in those words.[1] There is only one direct reference to the origins of what we, and they, usually call paper money. It is in the limitations on the power of the states in Article I, Section 10. It reads, “No State shall . . . emit Bills of Credit . . . .” Paper that was intended to circulate as money but was not redeemable in gold and silver was technically described as bills of credit at that time.
1Jul1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 4 comments | ContinuedPrimitivism: The Thrust of Government Intervention
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American Intellectual history. He is the author of several books, his most recent being Organized Against Whom? The Labor Union in America. He is working at present on A Basic History of the United States to be published by Western Goals, Inc. It sometimes sheds light [...]
1Jun1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Trouble With Farming
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and is working at present on A Basic History of the United States to be published by Western Goals, Inc. This past December, I traveled with my family through north central Mississippi and across the river [...]
1May1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Crisis of The Welfare State
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and is working at present on A Basic History of the United States to be published by Western Goals, Inc. Distressing symptoms often induce people to go to a physician. Quite often, these symptoms indicate that [...]
1Apr1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedGeorge Washington on Liberty and Order
There are truths to which the passage of time and the gaining of new experience add luster and vitality. So it has been, for me at least, with those contained in Washington’s Farewell Address. With each new reading of it, I have been impressed anew with the relevance of so much that he had to say to our own time. Often, too, I discover some new theme or emphasis that I had not been aware of earlier.
1Feb1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Meaning of Federalism
When Felix Morley called attention some years ago “to the illogical practice of referring to the central government as the ‘federal government’,” he declared that the confusion was “due to historical accident.” What he had in mind was that the supporters of the Constitution, when it was being considered for ratification, called themselves “federalists,” and the government under examination “federal.”
1Jan1983 | Clarence B. Carson | 2 comments | ContinuedBeyond the Christmas Story
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and is working at present on A Basic History of the United States to be published by Western Goals, Inc. Christmas is many things. It is the time of the celebration of the birth of the [...]
1Dec1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedA Question of Being Productive
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing In American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and is working at present on A Basic History of the United States to be published by Western Goals, Inc. If we must have statistics (a doubtful proposition), and if there must be a Bureau of [...]
1Oct1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Relics of Intervention: 6. Conclusion: The Relic of an Idea
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to The Freeman and other scholarly journals. Many interventions which have been embodied in programs that go back at least to the early twentieth century are still with us as relics in [...]
1Sep1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Relics of Intervention: 5. New Deal Welfarism
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to The Freeman and other scholarly journals. The welfare state is largely a relic of the New Deal. That is, it was conceived, advanced, and articulated in particular programs during the 1930s. [...]
1Aug1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Relics of Intervention: 4. New Deal Collective Planning
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to The Freeman and other scholarly journals. Relics of the New Deal are still very much a part of the political machinery under which we live. The bent to inflation, which is [...]
1Jul1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Relics of Intervention: 3. The New Deal Bent to Inflation
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to The Freeman and other scholarly journals. Government intervention came into its own with the New Deal. Not that the New Dealers invented the notion or developed for the first time the [...]
1Jun1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Relics of Intervention: 2. Progressivism
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to The Freeman and other scholarly journals. Some of the major relics of government intervention are still with us today as a result of the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century. [...]
1May1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Relics of Intervention: 1. Populism
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to The Freeman and other scholarly journals. There is a story of World War II vintage which went something like this. It is about a particular bench on an army post, in [...]
1Apr1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedPrescription for Expensive Education
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. He is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to The Freeman and other scholarly journals. Some years back, I ordered a typing table for my study from a large mail order house. It came in a few days, and I [...]
1Mar1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedReasoning on the Nature of Things
Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American Intellectual history. He is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to The Freeman and other scholarly journals. Several years ago, a friend of mine suggested that there needed to be a renewed interest and emphasis on rights in the discourse on economic [...]
1Feb1982 | Clarence B. Carson | 1 comment | Continued-
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