Archive for Roger Ream
Book Review: Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
(Reprinted by The Institute for Humane Studies and New York University Press; distributed by Columbia University Press, 136 South Broadway, Irvington, New York 10533), 1981 • 328 pages • $20.00 cloth; $7.00 paper The Publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations in 1776 is considered the starting point of the science of economics. However, [...]
1Feb1982 | Roger Ream | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Equality, the Third World, And Economic Delusion by P. T. Bauer
(Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138), 1981 293 pages • $17.50 cloth Professor Peter T. Bauer of the London School of Economics is not an orthodox development economist. Rather than following the fashion and advocating the massive transfer of resources from developed countries to Third World governments, Bauer is the foremost critic [...]
1Dec1981 | Roger Ream | 0 comments | ContinuedPrice Ceilings Harm the Poor
Roger Ream Is Director of Seminars of The Foundation for Economic Education. Casual observation of events can lead to faulty conclusions. Outward appearances can be quite misleading for things are not always as they seem. Failure to look beyond the obvious has led to many blunders on the part of both scientists and casual observers. [...]
1Nov1981 | Roger Ream | 2 comments | ContinuedWhat Causes Wealth?
Roger Ream is Director of Seminars of The Foundation for Economic Education. The poor are still with us. Despite tremendous advances in agriculture and industry, poverty persists. But why? Why do some people suffer lifelong poverty? Why do others enjoy high standards of living? What makes possible decent, even comfortable, conditions? These are age-old questions. [...]
1Aug1981 | Roger Ream | 8 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Gold, Peace, and Prosperity: The Birth of a New Currency by Congressman Ron Paul
(The Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, Inc., P.O. Box 1776, Lake Jackson, Texas 77566), 1981 55 pages • $5.00 paperback Efforts to restore a gold standard are gaining momentum. The 1934 prohibition of the private ownership of gold was repealed in 1974. Three years later, gold clause contracts were legalized. In 1979, a bill [...]
1Jul1981 | Roger Ream | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Birth of a Transfer Society by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill Foreword by James M. Buchanan
The Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford, California) 114 pages • $6.95 paperback When the framers of the Constitution set out to draft a document that would “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,” they realized that government could easily become the chief threat to that liberty. Since two key requirements for [...]
1May1981 | Roger Ream | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Assault on Free Choice
"I am convinced that the freedom-of-choice principle is so woven into human existence that any effort to curtail it is an attempt to curtail life itself. To lose our freedom to choose is to lose our humanity." —Bertel Sparks Personal freedom of choice is an important aspect of the case for limited government. To the [...]
1Mar1981 | Roger Ream | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Enemies of Production
Roger Ream Is Director of Seminars of The Foundation for Economic Education. What Ralph Nader and his associates advertised as Big Business Day on April 17, 1980 was aimed at generating mass public support for legislation to curtail corporate power—to fight “Crime in the Suites.” Counter-demonstrations were organized to commemorate the past achievements of the [...]
1Oct1980 | Roger Ream | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The United States in the 1980s Peter Duignan and Alvin Rabushka, editors
Foreword by W. Glenn Campbell (Hoover Institution Press: Stanford, California 94305) 1980 • 868 pages • $20.00 cloth No one can accurately forecast the events of the future. In today’s complex and tension-filled world, it is even difficult to predict what next week’s headlines will be. Yet we can make reasonable guesses, based upon the [...]
1Jun1980 | Roger Ream | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Government Against The Economy by George Reisman
(Caroline House Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 738, Ottawa, III. 61350) 1979 • 207 pages • $12.95 cloth “This book is about the destructive effects of price controls,” the author tells us. “It explains why price controls are destructive in principle and shows how they have actually been destructive in practice.” But the book is more [...]
1Feb1980 | Roger Ream | 0 comments | Continued-
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