Archive for George Winder
The Wall Street Journals Second Language
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct fellow at The Heritage Foundation, is a Washington, D.C., consulting economist. For fourteen years he wrote The Wall Street Journal’s “Reading for Business” column. Why the growth of The Wall Street Journal? In November 1883, Wall Street news agents Charles H. Dow and Edward D. Jones introduced their first publication, “Customers’ [...]
1Jul1988 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedCaveat Emptor
From Britain comes word that overprotection of consumers can destroy freedom of choice.
1Jan1968 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Control of Wages and Incomes in Britain
Back to Britain, briefly, as George Winder focuses on the latest bureaucratic bungling of “wages and incomes” policies.
1Apr1967 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Selective Employment Tax
A careful student of political affairs in Britain tabs their new Selective Employment Tax a major regression toward mercantilism.
1Mar1967 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedPlanning Experiments in Britain
Mr. Winder, formerly a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in New Zealand, is now farming in England. He has written widely on law, agriculture, and economics. When, in the autumn of 1964, the Labor Party came to power in Great Britain, it naturally wanted to nationalize the factors of production, transport, and exchange. Its slim [...]
1Aug1965 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedBritish Returns to Mercantilism
Mr. Winder, formerly a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in New Zealand, is now farming in England. He has written widely on law, agriculture, and economics. The British government took another step back toward the ancient policy of mercantilism when last October it placed a 15 per cent surcharge upon all imported manufactured goods. This [...]
1Feb1965 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedGreat Britains Age of Economic Growth
Mr. Winder, formerly a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in New Zealand, is now farming in England. He has written widely on law, agriculture, and economics. That Great Britain remains outside the closed economy of the European Common Market is not so much attributable to General de Gaulle as to Britain‘s determination to follow her [...]
1Oct1963 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedThe British Nationalized Health Service
Mr. Winder, formerly a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, is now farming in England. He has written widely on law, agriculture, and economics. The late Lord Horder, who was one of Great Britain’s most distinguished surgeons, speaking prior to the time Britain’s medical system was taken over by the state, said, "It [...]
1Aug1962 | George Winder | 1 comment | ContinuedSelected Facts in the British Nationalized Coal Industry
Mr. Winder, formerly a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in New Zealand, is now farming in England. He has written widely on law, agriculture, and economics, his most recent book being A Short History of Money. Propaganda is a very respectable word fallen on evil days. It came first into general use as the name [...]
1Mar1961 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedDeath in The Afternoon: The story of two great London newspapers
Mr. Winder, formerly a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, is now farming in Sussex, England. He has written books, articles, and pamphlets on law, agriculture, and economics. On Monday, October 17, 1960, an event occurred which stirred Fleet Street to its depth. This famous street has seen many sensations in its long [...]
1Feb1961 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Centuries of Communism
How the concepts of property rights in England brought to an end…
1Jun1960 | George Winder | 1 comment | ContinuedSuccess Without Subsidy
From the November-December 1959 issue of the London journal, Freedom. In a world in which many people think controls and subsidies are necessary to preserve a prosperous agriculture, forty-three-year-old Antony Fisher is an outstanding example of a farmer who can succeed without them. Fisher chose to be a large-scale chicken producer because this was one [...]
1Apr1960 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedA World Monetary System
This essay was written five years after the famous Reflections on the Revolution in France, two years before Burke’s death. There is a current revival of interest in Burke, largely centered around the man and his politics. Perhaps this emphasis is all right, but it must not be overlooked that Burke’s statecraft was informed by [...]
1Oct1959 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedRaffles Of Singapore
Mr. Winder, formerly a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in New Zealand, is now farming in England. He has written widely on law, agriculture, and economics, his most recent book being A Short History of Money. Singapore, an island 27 miles long by 14 miles broad, on which is situated one of the great cities [...]
1Sep1959 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedAgricultural Subsidies in Great Britain
A study in miniature of the situation in the United States and other “planned” economies
1Jul1959 | George Winder | 1 comment | ContinuedFree Enterprise and European Unity
The Unifying Qualities of Trade
1Jun1959 | George Winder | 0 comments | ContinuedCurrency Convertibility
Few of us understand the subtle device of currency restrictions used by all governments to deprive their citizens of both freedom and property The value of currencies, like the value of many other commodities, depends upon a thousand factors which cannot be measured. These depend upon the opinions of the thousands of businessmen who want [...]
1Nov1955 | George Winder | 0 comments | Continued-
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