Archive for John Hood
Book Review ~ Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
by John Hood
Templeton Foundation Press – 2001 – 308 pages – $24.95
Reviewed by David L. Littmann
What better way to strengthen the roots of capitalism than to give its participants a stake in the system! But how? This is [...]
Book Review ~ The Triumph of Liberty by Jim Powell
The Free Press • 2000 • 574 pages • $35.00
On some books you feast. On others you nibble. Jim Powell’s The Triumph of Liberty is one of the latter. A fascinating collection of brief biographical sketches of those who have championed human freedom throughout history, Powell’s work is a seemingly inexhaustible source of information, [...]
Capitalism and the Zero
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a state policy think tank in North Carolina, and author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press).
In traditional discussions of the rise of free-market capitalism, great attention is paid to changes in institutions, technologies, and ideologies. We read the [...]
Children’s Real Enemy
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a state policy think tank based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and one of the authors of a new report on children and public policy from the Pacific Research Institute.
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” or so the old saying goes. [...]
Book Review ~ CancerScam: Diversion of Federal Cancer Funds to Politics by James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Transaction Publishers · 1998 · 189 pages · $32.95
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Perhaps the most critical chapter of CancerScam, a slim but effective exposé of the politicization of America’s health-care charities, begins with this famous quotation from Thomas Jefferson: “To compel a man [...]
The Savings Crisis
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a non-profit think tank based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (The Free Press).
It’s a constant refrain among politicians and the news media: America has a low savings rate. This, it is said, has dire [...]
Do Corporations Have Social Responsibilities?
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a public-policy think tank in North Carolina, and the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press, 1996).
Businesses are accustomed to being criticized for neglecting their responsibilities to society. Complaints that private enterprise puts profit before people have long provided reliable [...]
Capitalism: Discrimination’s Implacable Enemy
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a nonprofit think tank in North Carolina, and the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press), from which this article is adapted.
Do racial minorities, women, and other groups need the government to protect them against prejudice and discrimination? To hear [...]
Book Review ~ The Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation by Michael Novak
Rowman & Littlefield • 1997 • 177 pages • $19.95
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a nonprofit think tank based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and author of The Heroic Enterprise.
The Corporation, as we know it-and we know it from every aspect of our liveswas invented; it did not [...]
Government and the Market: Chicken or Egg?
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a nonprofit think tank based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
One evening not too long ago, I was invited to participate in a debate about state welfare policy. As much of our work at the John Locke Foundation had been directed toward various welfare bills in [...]
Henry Grady Weavers Classic Vision of Freedom
John Hood is the president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press, 1996).
This essay is an expanded version of Mr. Hood’s introduction to the third edition of The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver, [...]
Book Review: Angry Classrooms, Vacant Minds by Martin Morse Wooster
San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1994 • 187 pages • $19.95
The education reform debate in the United States has gotten stale. Schools need money, say the teachers’ unions and the denizens of the education establishment. Schools need flexibility, say trendy reformers. Schools need parental choice, say many conservative and libertarian activists. There [...]
School Violence
John Hood is research director at the John Locke Foundation, a state policy think tank in Raleigh, N.C., and a contributing editor of Reason magazine.
When politicians talk about education issues, they often mention such topics as school spending, teacher quality, parental involvement, and the curriculum. But when teachers talk about education issues, they almost always [...]
The Failure of American Public Education
Mr. Hood is a newspaper columnist, a contributing editor of Reason magazine, and the research director for the John Locke Foundation, a state policy think tank in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Many American critics believe that the major problem with public education today is a lack of focus on results. Students aren’t expected to meet high [...]
Does Occupational Licensing Protect Consumers?
John Hood is research director of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a columnist for Spectator (N. C.) magazine. A portion of this article first appeared in Consumers’ Research magazine.
It takes more to become an auctioneer in North Carolina than just experience, desire, and above-average verbal dexterity. It also requires a [...]
Business and the Adopt-a-School Fiasco
John Hood is publications and research director of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, and author of Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 153, “When Business Adopts Schools: Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child,” from which parts of this article are adapted.
The debate over public education reform in the United States has largely [...]
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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
