Archive for Tom G. Palmer
For-Profit Medicine and the Compassion Motive
Tom Palmer is fellow in social thought at the Cato Institute and a member of the board of trustees of the Foundation for Economic Education. For-profit medicine must be a terrible and immoral thing. After all, I hear it attacked as such all the time. Indeed, as I write this I’m listening to a bitter [...]
1Oct2000 | Tom G. Palmer | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Great Bequest
Tom Palmer is director of the Project for a Civil Society at the Cato Institute. This article is adapted from the Cato Handbook for Congress. Limited government is one of the greatest accomplishments of humanity. It is imperfectly enjoyed by only a portion of the human race, and, where it is enjoyed, its tenure is [...]
1Mar1999 | Tom G. Palmer | 1 comment | ContinuedThe U.S. (Dis)Information Agency
Tom Palmer is director of the Project on Civil Society at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Being the skunk at the garden party is generally not very pleasant. And biting the hand that invites you can seem ungrateful. But when the organizer of the party is funded by the taxpayers and is both lobbying [...]
1Feb1998 | Tom G. Palmer | 0 comments | Continued-
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