Archive for John Majewski
Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War
In concise and clear prose Professors Mark Thornton and Robert Ekelund use basic economics to explain the causes, outcome, and consequences of the Civil War. Employing Public Choice theory—a subdiscipline of economics that focuses on how public officials and government bureaucracies make decisions—Thornton and Ekelund attempt to revise many standard accounts of the war. Although [...]
18Mar2006 | John Majewski | 0 comments | ContinuedThird World Development: Foreign Aid or Free Trade?
Third World poverty is one of the most pressing problems of our age, condemning billions of people to lives of hardship and misery. Such poverty has led many Americans to want to help Third World peoples, both for humanitarian reasons and to increase our own trade and national security. In response to Third World poverty, [...]
1Jul1987 | John Majewski | 13 comments | ContinuedThe Industrial Revolution: Working Class Poverty or Prosperity?
John Majewski is an economics major at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently serving as a summer intern with the Institute for Humane Studies. Following graduation in 1988, John hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in economics. This paper was awarded second prize, college division, in FEE’s Freedom Essay Contest, How the industrial [...]
1Jul1986 | John Majewski | 106 comments | Continued-
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