Archive for Steven Horwitz
Contributing editor Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and the author of Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective, now in paperback.
A Libertarian Program for Urban Renewal
In the spirit of providing politically feasible “libertarian policies,” I want to offer a set of proposals to improve one area of American society that desperately needs it: the inner city.
29Sep2011 | Steven Horwitz | 14 comments | ContinuedThe Tax-the-Rich Truth Squad
In the end, all that’s left of the argument for taxing the rich more heavily is pure demagoguery and a desire to avoid the real problem, which is reducing the size and cost of government.
22Sep2011 | Steven Horwitz | 25 comments | ContinuedEugenics: Progressivism’s Ultimate Social Engineering
According to the received account of the Progressive Era, an enlightened government swept in and regulated markets for goods, labor, and capital, thereby protecting the hapless masses from the vicissitudes of unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. The Progressives had faith that experts would rise above self-interest and implement wise plans to create a great society. The resulting [...]
21Sep2011 | Art Carden | 22 comments | ContinuedThere is No Great Stagnation: Gas-Grill Parts Edition
As existing technology continues to get tweaked at the margins, we will live better and better lives even if traditional economic data make it seem as though we are stagnating.
15Sep2011 | Steven Horwitz | 15 comments | ContinuedThe Importance of Knowing the Other Side
We classical liberals should give our opponents the respect we would like them to give us. That means understanding and respecting their best arguments.
8Sep2011 | Steven Horwitz | 42 comments | ContinuedNatural Disasters and Disastrous Economics
The inability to imagine the unseen is the source of a great deal of bad economics.
1Sep2011 | Steven Horwitz | 27 comments | ContinuedWhat Do We Mean by “Big Government”?
The scale of government matters, but we cannot get so tangled up in debates about the size of federal government expenditures that we overlook the effects of changes in the scope of government power.
25Aug2011 | Steven Horwitz | 6 comments | ContinuedFDR’s Advisers Knew What Rachel Maddow and Paul Krugman Don’t
Hoover can be blamed for turning what would have likely been a severe but short market correction into a deep and long Great Depression. The reason, however, is not that Hoover did nothing.
18Aug2011 | Steven Horwitz | 49 comments | ContinuedGiving Back
It’s not “society” that makes rich people rich; it’s you and I — and in return we have a cornucopia of stuff that has made our lives better, easier, safer, and longer.
11Aug2011 | Steven Horwitz | 31 comments | ContinuedThe Bourgeois Virtues and Consumer Ethics
When people in the market display particularly virtuous behavior, we as consumers should feel obligated to reward it, and not just because we think it will encourage more of it.
4Aug2011 | Steven Horwitz | 25 comments | ContinuedThe Calling of Teaching
If we are to move forward to freedom, a key part of that process will take place in the classroom, where young people’s views of the world are up for grabs
28Jul2011 | Steven Horwitz | 34 comments | ContinuedThe Importance of Doing It Right
Just because you agree with an author’s conclusions doesn’t mean he or she has done the job well.
21Jul2011 | Steven Horwitz | 16 comments | ContinuedA Battle that Everyone Wins
Google’s ability to create a meaningful competitor is what will force Facebook to innovate, even if Google+ fails in the long run.
14Jul2011 | Steven Horwitz | 26 comments | ContinuedWe Should Be Free Because We Are Equal
Equality should not be a dirty word for libertarians since equality of liberty and equality before the law are in our intellectual DNA.
7Jul2011 | Steven Horwitz | 20 comments | ContinuedThe Other Principle of Classical Liberalism
If government grants certain privileges to those who are married, it must grant them equally to all its citizens who wish to marry.
30Jun2011 | Steven Horwitz | 58 comments | ContinuedMarkets and Human Excellence
While not all forms of excellence command the salaries that athletes and musicians command, each serves other people in its own way and brings some reward in the marketplace.
23Jun2011 | Steven Horwitz | 8 comments | ContinuedYes, It Is a Police State
Since 9/11 the biggest threat to the American people is not radical Muslim terrorists, nor deranged domestic terrorists, but the terrorists with the blue uniforms, badges, and body armor.
16Jun2011 | Steven Horwitz | 59 comments | Continued-
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For Equality; Against Privilege
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