Archive for Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Why Socialism Causes Pollution
Corporations are often accused of despoiling the environment in their quest for profit. Free enterprise is supposedly incompatible with environmental preservation, so that government regulation is required. Such thinking is the basis for current proposals to expand environmental regulation greatly. So many new controls have been proposed and enacted that the late economic journalist Warren [...]
1Mar1992 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 39 comments | ContinuedAmericas OPEC: The Public School Cartel
Dr. DiLorenzo holds the Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Tennessee, New Jersey, and numerous other states have recently proposed or enacted state tax increases with the ostensible purpose of improving local public schools. Despite the fact that there is virtually no evidence that simply throwing more money at [...]
1Jul1991 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Genesis of Industrial Policy
Thomas I. DiLorenzo is the Scott L. Probasco, Jr. Professor of Free Enterprise at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. This article is adapted from his book, Paved With Good Intentions: Economic Nationalism and American Industrial Policy (Cato Institute, 1990). Milton Friedman recently proposed the following syllogism which he believes characterizes much contemporary thinking about [...]
1Jun1990 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedNational Service: A Solution in Search of a Problem
Thomas J. DiLorenzo is the Probasco Professor of Free Enterprise, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. This article is adapted from his forthcoming book, Paved With Good Intentions: Economic Nationalism and American Industrial Policy (Cato Institute, 1990). In some intellectual and public policy circles, economic nationalism has struck a fever pitch in the form of [...]
1Mar1990 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 1 comment | ContinuedMonopoly Government
Dr. DiLorenzo is the Scott L. Probasco, Jr., Professor of Free Enterprise at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. This article is partly adapted from his book, coauthored with James T. Bennett; Unfair Competition: The Profits of Nonprofits (Hamilton Press, 1988). In theory, the goods and services provided by federal, state, and local governments are [...]
1Jun1989 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Political Economy of Protectionism
Dr. DiLorenzo is the Scott L. Probasco, Jr., Professor of Free Enterprise and Director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Disagreements among economists are legendary, but they are largely of one mind on the issue of free trade. Evidence of this is a recent survey of the current [...]
1Jul1988 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy Government Jobs Programs Destroy Jobs
In an effort to spur economic development, several bills have been introduced in Congress to resurrect Depression-era “public works” programs. Such legislation has been heartily supported by organized labor and other interventionist groups. But such programs cannot reduce unemployment any more than the Depression-era programs did. The unemployment rate was higher in 1939—despite millions of [...]
1Nov1987 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Rhetoric of Antitrust
Dr. DiLorenzo is Visiting Professor of American Business at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis. He is on leave from George Mason University. In theory antitrust regulation promotes competition in the marketplace but in reality its results are often anticompetitive. It is routinely used by businesses having [...]
1Mar1987 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedPublic Policy and the Free Economy
Taxpayers in the United States, Great Britain, and several other democratic countries have become increasingly disenchanted with the unfulfilled promises of governments, the burdens of taxation and inflation, and the loss of individual freedom which public sector expansion has generated. New constitutional and statutory restrictions on governmental taxing and spending powers have been imposed in [...]
1Aug1982 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | Continued-
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