Archive for John Hood
To Understand Change, Learn History
Judging by the headlines and recent political campaigns, America’s economy is undergoing one of those rapid and fundamental changes that augur well for the incomes of Americans — but not so well for the prospects of restraining politicians from counterproductive intervention to “save jobs.” According to the data, my home state of North Carolina lies [...]
6Jul2010 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedHayek, Strauss, and the Political Waltz
Here’s a little trivia question for you: name an important innovation of the 1870s that continues to influence our lives today. The innovation occurred in Austria, or more specifically, in Vienna. While it was greeted throughout continental Europe as something new and exciting, a more accurate description would be that it was a new twist [...]
1Jun2005 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedThe 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, [...]
1May2001 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedCapitalism 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 great philosophers [...]
1Dec2000 | John Hood | 1 comment | ContinuedChildren’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. For [...]
1Jun1999 | John Hood | 2 comments | ContinuedCancerScam: Diversion of Federal Cancer Funds to Politics
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 to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which [...]
1May1999 | John Hood | 1 comment | ContinuedThe 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 [...]
1Mar1999 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedDo 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 [...]
1Nov1998 | John Hood | 26 comments | ContinuedCapitalism: 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 [...]
1Aug1998 | John Hood | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation
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 lives–was invented; it did not come to be of itself.” With those words from Oscar Handlin begins [...]
1Jul1998 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment 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 the [...]
1Mar1998 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedHenry Grady Weaver’s 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, published [...]
1Aug1997 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedBook 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. [...]
1Sep1994 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedSchool 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 [...]
1Feb1994 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Failure of American Public Education
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 standards, the argument goes, and the process of education takes precedence over analyzing education results in policy-making circles. This is a valid argument (as far as it goes). Indeed, it [...]
1Feb1993 | John Hood | 91 comments | ContinuedDoes 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 [...]
1Nov1992 | John Hood | 1 comment | ContinuedBusiness 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 [...]
1May1992 | John Hood | 0 comments | Continued-
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