Archive for Oscar W. Cooley

The Freedom to Move

The freedom of the individual to move toward greener pastures, wherever they may seem to be, has been a vital part of the freedom of commerce—the freedom of choice that has constituted the truly distinctive characteristic of “the American way.”  In view of our long experience of near-perfect freedom to move about as each might [...]

1Nov2006 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Freedom to Move

This article is excerpted from a pamphlet originally published by FEE in 1951. Can we hope to explain the blessings of freedom to foreign people while we deny them the freedom to cross our boundaries? Freedom of movement underlies the concept of private property rights. A person has the right to exclusive possession and use [...]

1Jan1986 | | 14 comments | Continued

Inflation Fighters Bark Up The Wrong Tree

The point, again, is that inflation is strictly the result of monetary manipulation.

1Jun1979 | | 0 comments | Continued

Rights Are Freedoms, Not Powers

Our rights are freedoms to seek and establish, it we can, the good ways of life.

1Aug1976 | | 0 comments | Continued

Pollution and Property

Not the socialists but the capitalists have the solution to pollution.

1Jun1972 | | 1 comment | Continued

Thomas Cooper: Early Libertarian

A skilled economic theoretician, often ahead of his time.

1Mar1971 | | 0 comments | Continued

What Is Employment?

Mr. Cooley is Associate Professor of Economics at Ohio Northern University. "Employment" is not a simple term denoting the mere holding of a job for which a wage is paid, or the operating of one’s own busi­ness. Rather, it signifies the state of anyone who is doing what, under the circumstances, he most wants to [...]

1Nov1963 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Failure of the State Employment Service

Mr. Cooley is Associate Professor of Eco­nomics at Ohio Northern University. Few, if any, private business ven­tures have been more pushed around and kicked about by gov­ernment than have employment agencies. Even at the turn of the century the employment agent was looked upon as a grasping character, in­tent upon exploiting the "poor worker" when [...]

1Aug1962 | | 0 comments | Continued

Education and the Market

Mr. Cooley is Associate Professor of Economics at Ohio Northern University. When my wife sends me to the supermarket to buy groceries, I pay for what I get and get what I pay for. The price of each item purchased is known to me and I agree to it. This is an exchange between two [...]

1Aug1960 | | 1 comment | Continued

Why Not Pay Cash?

Mr. Cooley is Associate Professor of Eco­nomics at Ohio Northern University. Often said—but never too often—is that the government has naught to spend but what it gets from the people, either directly and forthrightly in taxes or serv­ice charges, or indirectly and de­viously by manufacturing new money, the value of which is taken out of [...]

1May1959 | | 1 comment | Continued

    • © Copyright 2011 Freeman - Ideas on Liberty. All rights reserved.

    45 queries. 2.146 seconds