Archive for F. A. Harper
Why Wages Rise: 10. Leisure and the Better Life
This article will deal with leisure and its relation to wage rates.
1Dec1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedA Seeming Paradox About Inflation
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. “You say that it is inflationary for the government to sell its bonds in order to finance a deficit in its budget. But I have also heard it said that it is inflationary when the government buys bonds. How can that [...]
1Dec1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 9. Losing Pay Through Fringe Benefits
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. The previous article discussed the worth of a free hand in the spending of one’s own wage income. When you can’t use your income for things of your choice, its worth is lessened to you. It [...]
1Nov1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedSome Observations At the Iron Curtain
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. Here one may compare life in the planned society with that of comparatively free people. Berlin, Germany, August 31—Today I visited East Berlin. and there hangs an interesting and tragic story, in the opinion of this observer at least. The trip [...]
1Nov1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedLetters
Excerpts From Correspondence of Interest to Libertarians On Ownership Editor’s Note: Dr. H——, a retired missionary teacher, is writing a book on Christianity and free enterprise. The following letter was in response to his question about the origin of ownership. “Does the right of ownership to a thing depend on my having labored for it?” [...]
1Oct1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 8. The Cost of Being Governed
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. In the preceding articles in this series, your wages have been spoken of as though they were entirely composed of money in the pay envelope which you could spend as you wish. They have been discussed as though each dollar could [...]
1Oct1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 7. Contracting For Progress
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. Money, the lubricant for exchange, was discussed in the previous article in this series. Money makes widespread trade possible. Without it our present high level of wages could hardly have come to be. Yet, serious inflation and deflation can cause [...]
1Sep1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 6. The Lubricant for Exchange
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. In the market we find persons trading the fruits of their special abilities with one another. Each does whatever economic task he can do best. He creates a surplus beyond his own needs. He then trades this with others who are [...]
1Aug1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 5. Doing What You Can Do Best
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. In the previous article it was shown how the rise in wages has been due in large measure to the aid of tools that use the stored energy from the sun. Energy used to assist each man-hour of labor has increased [...]
1Jul1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 4. Tools to Harness Energy
F. A. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. The first two articles in this series dealt with the effect on wages of (1) union membership and (2) productivity. The third dealt with the division of the total product between pay for current effort and pay for the use [...]
1Jun1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 3. Dividing The Pie
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation ]or Economic Education. Real wages in the United States are about five times as high as they were a century ago. The first in this series of articles showed that this rise apparently is not, as commonly believed, due to the growth of labor [...]
1May1956 | F. A. Harper | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 2. Productivity
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. Editor’s Note: In the first article of this series (March 1956 issue) it was shown that unions have no perceptible influence on national wage rates, if we may judge from changes in union membership and wage rates over the last century. [...]
1Apr1956 | F. A. Harper | 2 comments | ContinuedWhy Wages Rise: 1. Labor Unions?
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation ]or Economic Education. Wage rates are higher in the United States than in any other country. and they are about five times as high here as they were a century ago, in purchasing power. Many explanations of this phenomenal rise have been attempted. Dr. [...]
1Mar1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Graduated Gadinkus Tax
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. It was New Year’s Day and Alonzo Brown had a headache. Not because he had imbibed too much, for he was a teetotaler. His head ached because he was making out his federal income tax return. The further he figured, the [...]
1Mar1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedA New Scheme
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. A new scheme is afoot by which the people of the United States—rich and poor alike are likely to become trapped into financing national socialism abroad. This is the pattern: It all starts innocently enough. Private investors here would gladly pour [...]
1Feb1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Pay For Things?
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. “Why do we have to pay for things?” asked a five-year-old boy at dinner one evening. Probably his question was prompted by the suffering of privation endured by all small boys, with their many wants to be served by few pennies. [...]
1Jan1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedRoots Of Economic Understanding
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. The game of economics in the United States is something like a ball game where the home team fails to score. The record shows a lack of economic understanding. Despite the abundance of material splendor parading before us in the show [...]
1Nov1955 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | Continued-
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