Archive for Murray Weidenbaum
Murray Weidenbaum holds the Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professorship at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also serves as honorary chairman of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy.This article first appeared at <a href="http://www.fee.org"www.fee.org.
Stealth Expansion of Government Power
The government of the United States spent the year debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform. Yet a far more fundamental shift, in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of government power over the private sector of the economy, has been going on [...]
23Oct2009 | Murray Weidenbaum | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Awesome Powers of Government
Murray Weidenbaum holds the Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professorship at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also serves as honorary chairman of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy. He is the author of Business and Government in the Global Marketplace, seventh edition (Prentice-Hall, 2004).
Government possesses far more mechanisms that influence actions [...]
Book Review: The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek
The University of Chicago, 1962
Dr. Weidenbaum is chairman of the Center for the Study of American Business, Washington University, St. Louis.
Friedrich Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty surely merits front rank in any list of outstanding books on liberty, free market economics, history, and political philosophy. What is especially remarkable about the work is that [...]
The Discouraged Employer
Dr. Weidenbaum is Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis.
For years, economists have written about discouraged workers who drop out of the work force because they do not believe suitable jobs are available for them. Now government has created a [...]
Reducing Regulation of the Defense Industry
Murray Weidenbaum is Director of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis. This article is drawn from his new book, Small Wars, Big Defense (Oxford University Press).
When most people think about regulated industries in the United States, they have in mind the local electric or gas utility, [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
