Archive for Jeffrey A. Tucker
The Moral Obligations of Workers
Mr. Tucker is director of research at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama. You hate your boss. Your hours are bad. Your salary is too low, and you haven’t been promoted in years. What’s a worker to do? If you can’t get your way, and just can’t take it anymore, you can quit. In [...]
1May1997 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology by Doug Bandow
Transaction Publishers • 1994 • 333 pages + index $34.95; available from Laissez Faire Books at $19.95 “oth freedom and virtue are under assault today,” writes Doug Bandow in The Politics of Envy, an applied integration of social conservatism and economic libertarianism. The root cause is a public theology of state worship. He posits that [...]
1Sep1995 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Endangered American Dream by Edward N. Luttwak
New York: Simon & Schuster • 1993 • 365 pages • $24.00 Edward Luttwak, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, is obviously a brilliant man. His prose is concrete. It packs a punch. He marshals enough facts and anecdotes to his side of the debate to provide the appearance of an infallible case. [...]
1Aug1994 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws by Richard A. Epstein
Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 • 1992 • 530 pages • $39.95 cloth Contemporary political culture tolerates two positions on civil rights. The first position says approved minorities need expanded “rights,” which really mean privileges and quotas in hiring, mandated benefits, and high taxes to pay reparations for past injustices. This [...]
1Jul1992 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 9 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Economic Policy And The Market Process: Austrian Economics And Mainstream Economics edited by K. Groenveld, J. A. H. Maks, and J. Muysken
North-Holland, P.O. Box 882, Madison Square Station, New York, NY 10159 • 1990 • 304 pages • $69.50 cloth Austrian economics, with a tradition dating back over 100 years, distinguishes itself by its insistence on using strict rules of logic to deduce economic laws that govern human action. But that isn’t the source of the [...]
1Nov1991 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: This Hemisphere Of Liberty: A Philosophy Of The Americas by Michael Novak
The AEI Press, 4720-A Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706 1990 • 153 pages • $18.95 cloth History should remember May Day 1991 as the day the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, the world’s oldest religious institution, issued an encyclical to herald the free market as the model for global economic development. Along with it, [...]
1Oct1991 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 0 comments | ContinuedReaders Forum
To the Editors: Nick Elliott, in his fascinating article on the Levelers (May 1989), tells us that their fight against the 17th- century Stuart state was an outgrowth of English individualism, which in turn led to liberalism, which he finds inextricably linked to the Reformation. This is the customary account. However, as Lord Acton—the great [...]
1Aug1989 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Theory Of Market Failure Edited by Tyler Cowen
George Mason University Press, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030 * 1988 * 384 pages • $21.75 cloth Economists favoring government intervention often base their views on “market failures.” These alleged failures occur when the free market appears unable to overcome certain barriers preventing goods or services from being satisfactorily provided through voluntary means. Some [...]
1Jul1989 | Jeffrey A. Tucker | 1 comment | Continued-
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