Archive for Dale M. Haywood
The Most Insidious Tax
Dale Haywood is a professor of business at Northwood University and an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, both in Midland, Michigan. People don’t generally spend and invest other people’s money as carefully as they do their own. This single, simple fact goes a long way toward explaining why capitalism works and [...]
1Jul2004 | Dale M. Haywood | 0 comments | ContinuedTax Withholding: An Immodest Proposal
At the beginning of each class I teach I explain why I dislike boxing. I make the point to help my students understand what I believe is the purpose of education. Boxers have a clear-cut goal: to knock their opponents unconscious. That’s exactly opposite our goal as students. We strive to become more conscious. For [...]
17Apr2003 | Dale M. Haywood | 0 comments | ContinuedFeeding Bread to Pigs
Years ago a Detroit newspaper reported that in the countryside of the former Soviet Union there were billboards that read, “Comrades, it is unpatriotic to feed bread to your pigs.” As a guy who grew up in rural Nebraska, I found my curiosity aroused. I know something about the eating habits of pigs. They’ll eat [...]
27Jan2003 | Dale M. Haywood | 2 comments | ContinuedConcentrated Philosophies
Some years ago, while visiting the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, I saw a bumper sticker that got my attention. It was on the back bumper of an old Volkswagen Bug. It read: "PEOPLE, NOT PROFITS." In one important respect, those words remind me of concentrated frozen orange juice. For these three simple words [...]
1Nov2002 | Dale M. Haywood | 2 comments | ContinuedWe Would Be Wise To . . .
Dr. Haywood teaches economics at Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan, How best to supply the goods and services consumers value most. During the past several decades, government has become a primary provider of education, mass transit, fire protection, garbage collection, road repair, and park maintenance. We may have been lulled into thinking that government is the [...]
1Jul1986 | Dale M. Haywood | 0 comments | ContinuedSelf-Interest at Work
Dr. Haywood is professor of business and finance at Northwood Institute, Midland, Michigan. He is co-au-thoring with Mr. Lawrence Reed a textbook, When Men Are Free, from which this chapter is published by permission, There is no need to apologize for the self-interest of human beings and the desire to earn a good living that [...]
1Mar1981 | Dale M. Haywood | 1 comment | ContinuedA Human Action Taxonomy
We interact in society voluntarily or coercively and the consequences make all the difference.
1Dec1978 | Dale M. Haywood | 2 comments | Continued-
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