Archive for John A. Davenport
The Anti-Apartheid Threat
John A. Davenport is a former editor of Barton’s and former member of the board of editors of Fortune. According to Lenin the road to the communization of Europe lay through the heart of Africa. Today this dictum could be amended and sharpened. The road to destabilizing Africa’s major economy, namely South Africa itself, and [...]
1Aug1985 | John A. Davenport | 1 comment | ContinuedBeyond the Market
This essay draws on a paper submitted to a recent meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society at Cambridge University in England on the topic of Moral Agreement in the Free Society concerning which many divergent views were expressed. The author was one of the founding members of the Society in 1947 and is a former [...]
1Jan1985 | John A. Davenport | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Not Deregulate Labor?
A former editor of Barron’s and Fortune, Mr. Davenport is author of The U.S. Economy and a frequent lecturer on political economy. Despite the tendency of economists to create more problems than they solve, there seems to be a growing consensus that the American economy will gain as we lift strangling governmental regulations from industry [...]
1Oct1983 | John A. Davenport | 0 comments | ContinuedPilgrimage Among the Scribblers
A former editor of Barron’s and Fortune, Mr. Davenport is author of The U.S. Economy and a frequent lecturer on political economy. At a recent Berlin conference of the Mont Pelerin Society—that unique collection of libertarian economists and political conservatives—it was my good fortune to meet up with my friend John Chamberlain. Characteristically, he had [...]
1Jan1983 | John A. Davenport | 0 comments | ContinuedA Heartening Message from Youth
Nine young authors bolster capitalism with a comprehensive and comprehensible moral philosophy.
1Oct1976 | John A. Davenport | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Classical Medicine
A former editor of Barron’s and of Fortune, Mr. Davenport is author of The U.S. Economy and a frequent lecturer on political economy. This article is reprinted by permission from Human Events of October 4, 1975. It is a fact of experience, no less than a law of optics, that in perceiving an [...]
1Jan1976 | John A. Davenport | 0 comments | Continued-
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