Archive for Don Mathews
The Free Market: Lifting All Boats
Professor Mathews teaches economics at Coastal Georgia Community College. In the free market, the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. America’s market economy might create wealth for some, but it certainly doesn’t benefit the poor. How often we read or hear such statements. What they assert is familiar. But is it true? Does [...]
1Apr1997 | Don Mathews | 1 comment | ContinuedDoes Big Mean Bad? The Economic Power of Corporations
Professor Mathews teaches economics at Brunswick College, Brunswick, Georgia. Fortune magazine annually presents its “Fortune 500” list of the 500 largest corporations. To some people, the Fortune 500 is a twisted tribute to the most greedy and baneful institution that capitalism offers: the big corporation. Critics of capitalism and big corporations often assert that such [...]
1Feb1996 | Don Mathews | 2 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
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Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
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
