Archive for James L. Payne

Contributing editor James Payne has taught political science at Yale,Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, and Texas A&M. His latest book is Six Political Illusions: A Primer on Government for Idealists Fed Up with History Repeating Itself.

What Should We Do About Luck?

James L. Payne is a political scientist who is writing a book for the Cato Institute on the attitudes underlying government spending programs, The Culture of Spending. What should we do about the fact that some people are able to earn more money than others? Should government redress the resulting disparities in income? The answer [...]

1Sep1988 | | 0 comments | Continued

Vanishing Voluntarism

James L. Payne is a political scientist and visiting scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He is writing a book about Congress and the budget entitled The Culture of Spending, to be published next year by the Cato Institute. The Planned Parenthood organization recently ran an unusual billboard [...]

1May1988 | | 0 comments | Continued

Its Not Our Money

Dr. Payne is on leave as Professor of Political Economy at Texas A&M University. Is government a charitable institution? From time to time the United States House of Representatives lays aside its usual duties to memorialize certain of its members. The tribute is in the form of legislation. A bill is introduced placing the fallen [...]

1Jun1986 | | 0 comments | Continued
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