Archive for Robert A. Lawson

Robert Lawson is an associate professor of finance at Auburn University.

The Decline in Economic Freedom

In the early 1980s both the United States and the United Kingdom reduced marginal tax rates, brought inflation under control, and relaxed both regulations and trade barriers. Many other countries soon followed, and the result was a quarter-century of expansion in both economic freedom and the growth of income. These movements can be observed in [...]

24Nov2010 | | 4 comments | Continued

We’re All Rawlsians Now!

In the 1970s Richard Nixon famously remarked, “We’re all Keynesians now.” Fortunately, the president overestimated the long-run influence of John Maynard Keynes’s ideas among economists. For modern philosophers, it might be appropriate to rephrase Nixon’s line and say, “We’re all Rawlsians now.” John Rawls, the Harvard University philosophy professor, truly has had as much influence [...]

1Jun2002 | | 2 comments | Continued

The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

Thomas Friedman has written a very surprising book. Surprising not in what he has written, but in that Thomas Friedman wrote it. Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, and is probably known to readers of Ideas on Liberty as a moderately “liberal” establishment journalist. He is certainly not known as [...]

1Aug2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

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