Archive for James Rolph Edwards
How Nineteenth-Century Americans Responded to Government Corruption
James Rolph Edwards is an associate professor of economics at Montana State University-Northern.
From its origin as a distinct secular scientific discipline with the French Physiocratic school in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the British classical school that followed, economics had a pro-market, limited-government orientation. Indeed, intellectual historians and political philosophers often refer to [...]
Do Big Corporations Control America?
Since the mid-eighteenth century the development of market-based societies in America and elsewhere, with constitutional protections of property and freedom, has had startling effects. Well over 90 percent of the improvement in the material living standards of ordinary persons that has occurred in the 6,000 years of recorded human history has occurred in that last [...]
1Mar2002 | James Rolph Edwards | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review ~ Free Trade Versus Protectionism: A Source Book of Essays and Readings by Johannes Overbeek
Edward Elgar • 1999 • 656 pages • $120.00
This is a book that operates on several levels and succeeds, to a greater or lesser degree, on all of them. Centrally, it is a history of economic thought in the form of extracts and short essays by the prominent advocates of free trade and protectionism, [...]
Freedom, Legislation, and Disabilities
Dr. Edwards is Associate Professor of Economics at Montana State University-Northern.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, which took effect in January 1992, attempts to prevent discrimination in employment against the disabled and to guarantee access to "public" (i.e., business) accommodations. Providing "access" to disabled employees quickly began to generate costly adjustments in physical facilities by [...]
Free Markets and Externalities: The Symmetry of Unintended Effects
James Rolph Edwards is Associate Professor of Economics at Montana State University—Northern.
Someone once said that the world is not only a stranger place than we know, it is a stranger place than we can know. Whether that is true or not, upon close examination it often turns out to be quite different in crucial [...]
The Benefits of Variation
James Rolph Edwards is assistant professor of economics at Northern Montana College.
As a professor of economics who wishes to convince his students of the importance of economic insights without overselling economic knowledge, I have always taught my students that even the best economic models have only heuristic value and cannot be expected to explain [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
