Archive for Joseph S. Fulda

Libertarian Sympathies. Heart and Mind

Joseph S. Fulda, a regular contributor to The Freeman, is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan. Two questions invariably asked of me by those unacquainted with libertarian thought and surprised at many of the arguments and observations I put forth are “Why are you so committed a libertarian?” and [...]

1Mar1988 | | 0 comments | Continued

Economic Power

Joseph S. Fulda, a regular contributor to The Freeman, is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan. Economic power is a recurring theme among political theorists ranging from radical political economist John Kenneth Galbraith on the left to neoconservative intellectual Irving Kristol on the fight. The doctrine that wealth is [...]

1Feb1988 | | 0 comments | Continued

Scandals

Joseph S. Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan. It is impossible to read a newspaper or listen to a newscast nowadays and fail to be impressed by the degree to which our society is beset by scandals, large and small. This was not always so. There was [...]

1Dec1987 | | 0 comments | Continued

Productive Advances: Who Benefits Most?

Joseph S. Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan. The free enterprise system allows inventors and investors to reap the rewards of creativity and risk. But in a market economy, those who gain most from the productive advances thought of by inventors and funded by investors are the [...]

1Jul1987 | | 0 comments | Continued

Pay Television and Property Rights

Joseph S. Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan, An increasing number of American homes, recently estimated by U.S. News and World Report as perhaps 100,000, are now equipped with special antennae, decoders, converters, and other electronic gadgetry capable of receiving the signals from pay television satellites or [...]

1Jun1987 | | 0 comments | Continued

Liberty and Property

Joseph S. Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan. Perhaps the best way to illumine the connection between the economics and philosophy of liberty is to uncover the relation between liberty and property. There is no more authentically conservative idea than the rights of property. What is less [...]

1May1987 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Moral Case for a Balanced Budget

Joseph S. Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan. There is much talk these days about balanced budgets, but the talk is about figures when it should be about values, about the economic consequences of imbalance when it should be about its moral propriety. The compelling moral case [...]

1Mar1987 | | 0 comments | Continued

Liberties Lost in the Balance

Joseph S. Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan, Government intervention leads to irreconcilable differences. One of today’s major functions of the Supreme Court is to decide between competing claims based on the rights of the parties to the dispute, in balancing the parties’ rights at least one [...]

1May1986 | | 0 comments | Continued

Book Review: Competing Visions by Richard B. McKenzie

Cato Institute, 224 Second Street, SE, Washington, D.C. 20003 • 216 pages, $8,95 paperback Richard McKenzie’s Competing Visions is a Cato Institute study of the fallacies 0f national industrial policy being urged on us by an increasing number of economists, intellectuals, and politicians. McKenzie begins by surveying the varied proposals that fall under the rubric [...]

1Feb1986 | | 0 comments | Continued

Product Information on the Market

Joseph Fulda is assistant professor of computer science at Hofstra University. Consumers determine the amount of information available to them. One often overlooked dimension of competition is information. Information, it must be recalled, is an economic good: it is both scarce and valued. (See Gary North, “Exploitation and Knowledge,” The Freeman, January 1982.) Product information [...]

1Jan1986 | | 0 comments | Continued

Declarative Law

Joseph Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University. The law is imperative, it commands. Criminal law is a series of “Thou shalt nots.” Regulatory law, a relatively new area of statutory endeavor though it has ancient roots, is a series of “Thou shalt nots” and “Thou shalts.” Regulatory law of this sort [...]

1Nov1985 | | 1 comment | Continued

Book Review: Overdrive by William F Buckley, Jr.

(Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York) 1983 • 262 pages • $16.95 cloth William F. Buckley, Jr. is a man of many talents and interests and Overdrive, a factual accounting of eight days of Mr. Buckley’s life, makes a weekend’s fascinating reading. The form Mr. Buckley has chosen is especially welcome, since it reduces [...]

1Oct1984 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Broken Dream

Joseph Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University. The United Nations today is a sorry forum in which the unfree nations of the world make ever more oppressive claims on our freedom, in which the planned nations of the world make ever more burdensome claims on our wealth, and in which nations [...]

1Sep1984 | | 0 comments | Continued

Book Review: We Must Defend America by Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham (High Frontier, 1010 Vermont Ave., Suite 100, Washington, D.C. 20005), 1983

114 pages • $2.95 paperback Nuclear weaponry presents several vexing problems to libertarians concerned that the use of force in self-defense must be in a morally permissible fashion. Philip Lawler has delineated the issues in the Fall 1983 Intercollegiate Review: “A just war must conform to two sets of con ditions: those that define the [...]

1Aug1984 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Market and Scarce Resources

Joseph Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University. One of the most recurring canards levelled against the market is that it promotes the ravaging of our natural resources by profit-hungry businessmen, fails to urge conservation in the face of scarcity, creates pollution, and otherwise disfigures the natural environment. Nothing could be further [...]

1Aug1984 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Cheapest Means of Payment

Joseph Fulda is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hofstra University and resides in Manhattan. We were sitting in my mentor’s study discussing the vagaries of the teaching profession when he remarked: “You know, Joseph, we must pay for everything in life, and generally the cheapest way is with money.” I chuckled, but was struck [...]

1May1984 | | 0 comments | Continued

Book Review: The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions by George F. Will

(Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020) • 397 pages • $16.50 cloth Whether one follows his twice-weekly columns, reads his bi-weekly essays, or enjoys his lively comments as a television panelist, one cannot fail to be impressed with George Will’s expressive erudition. No other contemporary columnist has quite [...]

1Oct1982 | | 0 comments | Continued
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