Archive for John A. Sparks
Second-Guessing the Market
John Sparks is chairman of the department of business administration, economics, and international management at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. We commonly think of people below the poverty line as the only beneficiaries of welfare. But poor families are not the sole recipients of government money. Some of America’s largest and most successful companies get [...]
1Apr1999 | John A. Sparks | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Governments Money Monopoly Henry Mark Holzer, Editor
(Books in Focus, P. O. Box 3481, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163) • 227 Pages • $19.95 Editor Holzer has assembled several of the most interesting articles, cases and statements to be found on law and money and woven them together in a new book that should be in any library which has [...]
1Feb1983 | John A. Sparks | 0 comments | ContinuedNineteenth-Century AmericaOur Legacy of Prosperity
Dr. Sparks is Associate Professor of Business Administration and History and Director of the Institute on Public Policy and Private Enterprise st Grove City College in Pennsylvania. Despite the repetition of phrases like “the American economic miracle” and “American prosperity,” there are still very few Americans, college-age or otherwise, who can give a satisfactory answer [...]
1Jan1981 | John A. Sparks | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Gold Clause: What it Is And How to Use it Profitably edited by Henry Mark Holzer
(Books In Focus, Inc., 160 E. 36 St., Suite 31B, New York, N.Y. 10016) • 381 pages • $19.95 cloth Law professor Henry Mark Holzer has compiled an anthology of important articles about the legal standing of gold clauses in private and public contracts. A gold clause is the contractual requirement that a debt be [...]
1Nov1980 | John A. Sparks | 0 comments | ContinuedPerspectives on Hunger in the World
The history of famine and its causes, and how to combat them.
1Nov1978 | John A. Sparks | 0 comments | ContinuedThose Fellows with Black Hats: The Speculators
A word in defense of the ones who speed up the market process of adjustment to change.
1Aug1974 | John A. Sparks | 0 comments | Continued-
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