Archive for Mark Ahlseen
A Lesson from the Plains
Recent decades have not been kind to rural America. Technological advances in agriculture have resulted in output that can be produced by fewer and fewer people. This has resulted in the depopulation of many rural communities. Diminishing populations have forced many rural communities to consolidate their public schools in order to generate the necessary cost [...]
1May2005 | Mark Ahlseen | 1 comment | ContinuedNo, Fred, There Is No Free Enterprise–At Least Not Here
Dr. Ahlseen is Associate Professor of Economics at King College in Bristol, Tennessee. Each passing year results in more government regulation and control over private sector production. It has become increasingly difficult for entrepreneurs to gain official approval to initiate and sustain an enterprise. Such impediments are a form of what Frederic Bastiat called legal [...]
1Feb1996 | Mark Ahlseen | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Government Can’t Create Jobs
Mark Ahlseen is associate professor of economics at King College in Bristol, Tennessee. Any nation needs a certain number of government employees in order to function. But ever since the Employment Act of 1946 a different view of government employment has emerged: that government can alleviate downturns in economic activity by spending—or “investing”—funds on projects [...]
1Oct1993 | Mark Ahlseen | 29 comments | ContinuedDo Wars Cure Ailing Economies?
Professor Ahlseen teaches economics at Cedarville College, Cedarville, Ohio. The military action in the Persian Gulf has rekindled the belief that war can stimulate the American economy. No one, to be sure, is claiming that this is an acceptable trade-off—American lives for American prosperity—but it is argued that this positive effect cannot be ignored. After [...]
1Apr1991 | Mark Ahlseen | 0 comments | Continued-
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