Archive for Thomas E. Woods Jr.
The Fallacies of Distributism
Thomas Woods holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is assistant professor of history at Suffolk Community College (SUNY) in Brentwood, New York.
In certain disaffected pockets of the political left and right, more and more voices can be heard on behalf of an economic and social system known as distributism. According to the [...]
Why Wages Used to Be So Low
Thomas Woods holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is assistant professor of history at Suffolk Community College, a unit of the State University of New York.
*George Reisman, Capitalism (Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1996). All quotations are from this book.
A widespread misconception about the market economy is that it was responsible for [...]
Race, Inequality, and the Market
Not long ago I found myself in a debate with colleagues about the economic status of black Americans vis-à-vis whites. Naturally, their presumption was against the free market. The logic, such as it was, ran as follows: (1) we live under a market system (more or less); (2) in a variety of areas blacks have [...]
1Oct2002 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economics of Infantilism
While this year’s Winter Games were still going on, the website of the National Organization for Women was complaining that with all the Olympic coverage, the press had neglected to notice the 400-person rally, dubbed the “March for Our Lives,” held simultaneously in Salt Lake City. Led by organizations from the Poor People’s Economic Human [...]
1Jun2002 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedNullification: The Jeffersonian Brake on Government
Thinkers in the classical-liberal tradition, to the extent that they support a coercive state at all, speak routinely of the importance of keeping government strictly limited. To that end, the United States has a written Constitution, which enumerates the relatively brief list of tasks entrusted to the federal government and whose Tenth Amendment makes clear [...]
1Mar2002 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedA Myth Shattered: Mises, Hayek, and the Industrial Revolution
Thomas Woods Jr. holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and is a professor of history at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, New York.
The standard view of the Industrial Revolution among the general public is that it led to the widespread impoverishment of people who had hitherto been enjoying lives of joy and abundance. For [...]
The Southern Tradition: Implications for Modern Decentralism
Mr. Woods, a founding member of the Southern League, is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. This paper was delivered in June 1996 at the E.F. Schumacher Society Decentralist Conference held at Williams College in Massachusetts.
The American tradition of decentralism has attracted adherents on both sides of the ideological spectrum and from [...]
Globalism and Sovereignty: A Short History of the Bricker Amendment
Mr. Woods, an Intercollegiate Studies Institute Richard M. Weaver Fellow, is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University.
Historically, conservatives and libertarians have always maintained a suspicion of supranational governing bodies. Their central fear has been that foreign bodies may serve to compromise self-government and American liberties in favor of egalitarian and universalist political [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
