Archive for David M. Stewart
Book Review: The Electric Windmill: An Inadvertent Autobiography by Tom Bethell
Regnery Gateway, distributed by Kampmann & Co., 9 E. 40th Street, New York, NY 10016 • 1988 • 294 pages • $17.95 cloth I first read Tom Bethell’s essays in Reason in the late 1970s. At the time, I admired his clear, fluid style and effortlessly persuasive arguments on economic issues. But in his monthly [...]
1May1989 | David M. Stewart | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Compassion Versus Guilt And Other Essays by Thomas Sowell
William Morrow and Co., Inc.. 105 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016 • 1987 • 246 pages • $15.95 cloth “When a political crusade is on, there is no time to wait and see if anybody knows what they are talking about.” To anyone who has followed only Thomas Sowell’s scholarly writings over the last [...]
1Nov1988 | David M. Stewart | 2 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
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Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
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Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
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JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
