Archive for Greg Kaza
The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History
Today’s most crucial policy battles are about federal spending and the scope of government power. Cato Institute scholar John Samples reminds us in this book that those battles have their origins in the Progressive era, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Early in the twentieth century Herbert Croly (cofounder of The New Republic) argued [...]
24Aug2011 | Greg Kaza | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Sovereign Individual (How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State) by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Simon & Schuster • 1997 • 398 pages • $25.00 Greg Kaza is a Michigan state representative. The plotline sounds like a science fiction novel. Early in the 21st century, the cybereconomy produced by the Information Age liberates sovereign individuals as economic transactions occur outside government regulatory confines via such means as computer-generated electronic money [...]
1Feb1998 | Greg Kaza | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Mont Pelerin Society’s 50th Anniversary
Greg Kaza serves in the Michigan House of Representatives (42nd District) and is also an adjunct professor at Northwood University. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, one of this century’s most important groups of free-market intellectuals. The world was a quite different place when 36 free-market thinkers [...]
1Jun1997 | Greg Kaza | 0 comments | ContinuedThe U.S. Presidents and the Money Issue
Greg Kaza is a Michigan state representative. He has taught economics and history at Northwood University, where he served as an adjunct professor. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the most important presidential campaign ever to revolve around an issue largely ignored in contemporary politics—monetary policy. The Republicans, with William McKinley as their candidate, [...]
1Apr1996 | Greg Kaza | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Capturing The Culture: Film, Art, And Politics by Richard Grenier
Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1030 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005 • 1991 • 392 pages, $24.95 cloth Ideological studies revolve around more than politics; they involve culture as well. Lenin was the first socialist to implement Marx’s nightmare vision in the political realm. But another Marxist—the Italian Antonio Gramsci—played a crucial role in [...]
1Dec1991 | Greg Kaza | 0 comments | ContinuedEcorses Grand Experiment
Greg Kaza is Vice President for Policy Research at the Mackinac Center, a Midland, Michigan, public policy think tank At first glance, Ecorse, Michigan, appears an unlikely place for a grand experiment. Aging steel mills dominate the landscape in the 2.2- square-mile community of 11,000, located in a region known as Downriver Detroit. Down-river is [...]
1Dec1989 | Greg Kaza | 1 comment | Continued-
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