Archive for Michael D. Mallinger
Rolling Back the Market: Economic Dogma and Political Choice by Peter Self
St. Martin’s Press · 2000 · 265 pages · $26.00 paperback Reviewed by Michael D. Mallinger Critiques of the market system are a dime a dozen. Authors of these critiques typically choose to gloss over most of the theory underlying classical economics and classical-liberal political philosophy. However, what sets Peter Self apart is his willingness [...]
1Dec2001 | Michael D. Mallinger | 0 comments | ContinuedTen Years After the Bet: The More Things Change. . .
Michael Mallinger is a research associate at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. The late Julian Simon’s victory in his famous bet with Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich was a defining moment in the free-market movement’s victory over Malthusianism. In 1980 Simon challenged Ehrlich to choose five commodities that would become more expensive over the [...]
1Nov2001 | Michael D. Mallinger | 0 comments | Continued-
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