Archive for Perry E. Gresham
Book Review: The Twilight of Sovereignty: How The Information Revolution is Transforming Our World by Walter B. Wriston
Charles Scribner’s Sons • 1992 • 256 pages • $25.00 This new book by Walter Wriston, The Twilight of Sovereignty, is a clear overview of our present predicament. We are in a global market without full realization of its implications. Petrarch and Boccaccio, Lorenzo and the Medici did not know they were in the Renaissance. [...]
1Jul1993 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedMinimum Wage, Maximum Harm
Dr. Perry E. Gresham is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor, Bethany College. Bethany, West Virginia. I learned a very big lesson in a very small town. I was president of a small college, but that college was the biggest thing in town; in fact it was about the only place of employment. Teachers were the [...]
1Nov1988 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberty and the Entrepreneur
When firms are failing and people are out of work, there is clamor for government action to reduce foreign competition and to subsidize faltering industries. An unfortunate inclination to run to government obscures the real hope for solution to these problems. What is really needed is enough liberty for entrepreneurs to do their work. Francis [...]
1Oct1985 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedNatural Liberty: A New Version
Dr. Gresham is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Bethany College and President Pro Tempore of the Foundation for Economic Education. This paper was delivered by him at the Leonard E. Read Memorial Conference on Freedom, November 18, 1983. When Good Queen Bess defended her realm from powerful and gold-rich Spain by means of a [...]
1Mar1984 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Path of Duty by Leonard E. Read
(The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. 10533), 1982 • 128 pages • $7.50 Leonard Read has done it again. His new book is called The Path of Duty. Most tables of contents are dull descriptive material, but this one is as exciting as the fetching illustrations that appear in a seed catalog. Each [...]
1Dec1982 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: How Do We Know? by Leonard E. Read
(The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc., Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. 10533), 1981 • 117 pages • $6.00 How Do We Know? is the catchy title for the latest book from the prolific pen of Leonard E. Read. The book is a warm and gentle invitation to readers who wish to learn more about liberty. The title might [...]
1Mar1982 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedNatural Liberty
Dr. Gresham is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor, Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia. His latest book, With Wings as Eagles, concerns the joys of aging. The name of Adam Smith, long neglected, has recently come back into fashion. The supply side economists all claim him as the great father of their ideas. In part they [...]
1Oct1981 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Thoughts Rule the World by Leonard E. Read (The Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. 10533), 1981
128 pages • $6.00 cloth Leonard E. Read has produced his own two-foot shelf of books. Thoughts Rule the World is number twenty-seven. This handsomely bound new volume has all of the sparkle and charm of his earlier books with the added dimension of experience and wisdom which is reserved for what Norman Ream calls [...]
1Jun1981 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedAround the World . . .
This distinguished scholar shares some impressions gained during an 80-day cruise on the QE2.
1Jun1979 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberty for Older Americans
The opportunity to grow gains importance as one grows older.
1Oct1978 | Perry E. Gresham | 1 comment | ContinuedThink Twice Before You Disparage Capitalism
Capitalism serves miraculously if free from the fetters of limitless state intervention.
1Mar1977 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Beleaguered Businessman
The case for business needs to be made as long as antibusiness groups are advocating socialism.
1Sep1974 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedLiberty and Public Opinion
How to stem the modern tide of interest group interventionism and recover the liberty and virtue of the capitalist public philosophy that characterized the flowering of America.
1Jun1973 | Perry E. Gresham | 0 comments | ContinuedThe American Predicament
Dr. Gresham is President of Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia. This article first appeared in the May 1959 issue of The Kiwanis Magazine. A bronze tablet in Indianapolis records one of the wise and relevant remarks of a statesman and prophet: "Here February 11, 1861, Abraham Lincoln, on his way to Washington to assume the [...]
1Oct1960 | Perry E. Gresham | 1 comment | Continued-
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