Archive for Robert G. Anderson
A Page on Freedom: Number 7
Private Ownership The attributes of individual responsibility, initiative and respect for others are not basic conditions of our nature but, instead, are characteristics which will evolve wherever private property concepts have been established. When a legal system is structured to safeguard the private ownership of property and there prevails a set of values based on [...]
1Jun1984 | Robert G. Anderson | 0 comments | ContinuedSupply Side Economics: Miracle Cure or More of the Same?
Mr. anderson is Executive Secretary of The Foundation for Economic Education, inc. After two generations of government manipulation of business structured on the dogma of demand economics, it appears that the death knell is finally sounding for the Keynesian Revolution. The claim that “we are all Keynesians now,” made just a decade ago, has become [...]
1Nov1980 | Robert G. Anderson | 0 comments | ContinuedRunaway Investors
Mr. Anderson was Executive Secretary of The Foundation for Economic Education when this article was published. After a generation of exported U.S. inflation, resulting in a worldwide flood of dollars, the tide is starting to reverse. Foreigners are finally convinced that it’s time to send some of those dollars back. Observing the bargain basement prices [...]
1Jun1980 | Robert G. Anderson | 1 comment | Continued2 Kinds of Sabotage
Mr. Anderson is Executive Secretary of The Foundation for Economic Education. The newspaper headline read, Dam Destroyed,—Damages In Millions. The copy relates the horrifying details: “A group of terrorists announced responsibility for the destruction of the hydro-electric dam . . . A bomb exploding deep in the dam fractured the superstructure . . . The [...]
1Mar1980 | Robert G. Anderson | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Assault on Capital
Peace and prosperity are threatened by the political processes of inflation, taxation, transfer policies, and direct controls.
1Nov1979 | Robert G. Anderson | 1 comment | ContinuedTwo Ways of Life
Capitalism or socialism? The nature of property ownership makes the difference.
1Oct1979 | Robert G. Anderson | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Redistribution of Wealth Labor Union Style
Competition and freedom, not legal privilege and violence, lead to general prosperity.
1Jul1979 | Robert G. Anderson | 1 comment | Continued"Don’t Be Fuelish"
A government-engineered fuel crisis results in hypocritical advertising.
1Oct1977 | Robert G. Anderson | 0 comments | ContinuedA Real Con Job
When job-creation becomes more important than production to serve consumers, our lives are threatened.
1Jul1976 | Robert G. Anderson | 1 comment | ContinuedGold Is Legal, But…
The right to own gold may be an opening against governmental control of money.
1Jan1975 | Robert G. Anderson | 1 comment | ContinuedWindfall Profits
Erratic changes in consumer evaluations create profit opportunities for alert entrepreneurs.
1May1974 | Robert G. Anderson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Energy Crisis
Not the changing conditions of supply and demand, but the increasing governmental controls give rise to “shortages.”
1Aug1973 | Robert G. Anderson | 0 comments | ContinuedRoot of All Evil
Concerning the nature and depth of the causes of inflation and the prospects of a cure.
1Aug1971 | Robert G. Anderson | 0 comments | ContinuedPithole
Mr. anderson is a member of the teaching staff, Department of Economics, Grove City College, Pennsylvania. Along the banks of Pithole Creek in Western Pennsylvania lies a deserted field overgrown with weeds. One hundred years ago it was the same. A casual glance might suggest that the place had not changed in the intervening years, [...]
1Mar1962 | Robert G. Anderson | 18 comments | Continued-
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