Archive for Edwin G. West
Classical Libertarian Compromises on State Education
Dr. West is emeritus professor of economics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and author of Education and the State (Liberty Press). There seems to be a consensus that the typical intellectual today is more comfortable than most with the government supply of education. But what of the intellectuals who were also advocates of laissez [...]
1Oct1996 | Edwin G. West | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Spread of Education Before Compulsion: Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century
Most persons agree that children need the protection of the law against potential abuse by parents. But evidence shows that only a small minority of parents turn out to be delinquent. In practice it is very seldom indeed that governments remove children from their family home. At the end of the 1980s fewer than two [...]
1Jul1996 | Edwin G. West | 3 comments | ContinuedWhy Adam Smith Burned His Clothes
Dr. West is Professor Emeritus, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Never before, it seems, have candidates for high office in government been subjected to so much scrutiny. And this is not just the result of a new-found zeal in the joint party committees that review appointments. The press sometimes goes to unprecedented lengths in its [...]
1Oct1993 | Edwin G. West | 0 comments | Continued-
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