Archive for Tommy W. Rogers
Book Review: The New China: Comparative Economic Development in Mainland China, Taiwan, And Hong Kong by Alvin Rabushka
Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 177 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 • 1987 • 254 pages • $32.50 cloth, $12.95 paper Why have Taiwan and Hong Kong experienced greater economic progress than mainland China? And why has the economic vitality of mainland China increased since 19787 While the thriftiness, diligence, and other virtues [...]
1Jul1988 | Tommy W. Rogers | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Economic Liberties and the Judiciary Edited by James A. Dom and Henry G. Manne
George Mason University Press, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030 • 1987 • 414 pages • $28.00 cloth; $15,75 paperback Economic Liberties and the Judiciary consists of twenty-three essays by scholars from academia and jurisprudence who deal with the theory and practice of constitutional interpretation and the manner in which economic issues have been handled [...]
1Mar1988 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Rule of Experts: Occupational Licensing in America by S. David Young
Cato Institute, 224 Second Street, S.E_, Washington, D,C, 20003 1987 • 99 pages $7.95 paperback Occupational licensure is a political process whereby various trades and professions are enabled to erect barriers against competition through the enforcement power of the state. Some 640 occupations in the United States require registration, and some 490 are currently licensed. [...]
1Nov1987 | Tommy W. Rogers | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Essays in the History of Liberty: Selected Writings of Lord Acton edited by J. Rufus Fears
Liberty Classics, 7440 N. Shadeland, Indianapolis, IN 46250 • 558 pages, $15.00 cloth; $7.50 paperback Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton), 1834-1902, was a major figure in the Liberal Catholic Movement, and was instrumental in transforming the writing of English history into a rigorously scientific discipline based on the model of German scholarship. The themes [...]
1Apr1986 | Tommy W. Rogers | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Ideas Have Consequences by Richard N. Weaver
(University of Chicago Press, 5801 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, Ill.60637) 190 pages • $6.95 paperback This renowned volume stirred up a vigorous controversy when it first appeared in 1948; its title contributed a pregnant phrase to contemporary discourse and since the author’s death his name heads a program to encourage young scholars. Ideas Have Consequences [...]
1Apr1985 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Pink and Brown People and Other Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell and America: A Minority Viewpoint by Walter Williams
Pink and Brown People and Other Controversial Essays by Thomas Sowell 158 pages • $8.95 paperback America: A Minority Viewpoint by Walter Williams (Both books published by the Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, 1982.) 183 pages • $8.95 paperback Doctors Sowell (Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution) and Williams (professor of [...]
1Aug1983 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Development Without Aid: Growth, Poverty And Government by Melvyn B. Krauss
(McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1120 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020), 1983 • 208 pages • $17.95 cloth The key to prosperity in less-developed countries is to utilize the principle of comparative advantage in combination with release of the incentive and creative opportunity presented by the free market. Unfortunately, the social-democratic influence has emphasized [...]
1Jun1983 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Portable Conservative Reader edited by Russell Kirk
(Liberty Classics, 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, Ind. 46250) • 435 pages • $15.00 cloth; $7.00 paperback The Portable Conservative Reader edited by Russell Kirk (Viking/Penguin, Inc., 299 Murray Hill Pkwy., E. Rutherford, NJ 07073), 1982 • 723 pages • $6.95 paperback Here, in one handy sized volume, is a little library of distinguished writ-ing-prose, poetry, [...]
1Mar1983 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution by A. V. Dicey
(Liberty Classics, 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, Ind. 46250) • 435 pages • $15.00 cloth; $7.00 paperback Dicey (1835-1922) held a professorship at Oxford for twenty-seven years. He was heir to the first academic post created specifically for the study of English law, the Vinerian Professorship at Oxford, established in 1758, and of which Sir William [...]
1Mar1983 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Case for Gold: a Minority Report of the U.s. Gold Commission by Ron Paul and Lewis Lehrman
CATO Institute, 224 Second Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003), 1982 • 226 pages • $8.95 paper The Case for Gold is more significant in analysis and insight than its title might imply. It is a record of the political economy and banking of the United States as they have evolved in history. It is an [...]
1Mar1983 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism by Michael Novak
(An American Enterprise Institute/Simon & Schuster Publication, 1230 Ave. of the Americas, New York, New York 10020, 1982) 434 pages • $17.50 cloth If this book does not become a classic catalytic agent on behalf of the natural system of liberty—as opposed to the command society of socialism—as the desirable political economy on the basis [...]
1Jan1983 | Tommy W. Rogers | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Markets and Minorities by Thomas Sowell
(Basic Books, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022) 1981 • 141 pages • $12.95 cloth, $5.95 paperback Thomas Sowell demonstrates that many of the things we “know” about ethnicity and economic status are not so. Variables commonly thought of as decisive, skin color, for example, prove on examination to be far from [...]
1Oct1982 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Democracy and Liberty by William E. H. Lecky
Introduction by William Murchison (Liberty Classics, 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250), 1981 Vol. 1, 479 pages; Vol. II, 501 pages $18.00/set, cloth; $6.00/set, paperback William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903), Irish historian, essayist, and member of Parliament, issued Democracy and Liberty in 1896. Lecky was convinced that the statist radicalism which asserted that only the [...]
1Apr1982 | Tommy W. Rogers | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Regulation of Medical Care: Is the Price Too High? by John C. Goodman
(CATO Institute, 224 2nd Street, S.E., Washington, D.C., 20003), 1980 135 pages • $5.00 paperback Dr. Goodman, assistant professor of economics and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of Dallas, contends that most of the failures we encounter in the delivery of health care are not due to failure of [...]
1Apr1982 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Tax-Exempt Foundations by William McIlhany, II
Arlington House, 333 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06880) 302 pages • $20.00 cloth This study explores the degree to which the major tax-exempt foundations have advocated, propagandized for, and mobilized opinion on behalf of statism and collectivism in the areas of education, health policy, and public welfare. It reviews the various congressional investigations of [...]
1Nov1981 | Tommy W. Rogers | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction by Peter J. Ferrara
CATO Institute, 747 Front Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 ), 1980 484 pages • $20.00 Social Security absorbs one-fourth of the federal budget. Its sacrosanct nature and mythology makes it virtually immune from serious criticism. It has long been misrepresented and deceptively described by welfarist politicians and liberals to create a false impression among vot [...]
1Apr1981 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Politicization of Society Edited by Kenneth S. Templeton, Jr.
(LibertyPress, 7440 North Shadeland, Indianapolis, Indiana 46250), 1980 541 pages • $10.00 cloth; $4.50 paperback The Politicization of Society consists of fourteen essays, plus an introduction by Dr. R. M. Hartwell of Oxford, which focus on the central problem of modern society—the growth of the state—and its significance for the individual. Politics, Dr. Hartwell observes, [...]
1Apr1981 | Tommy W. Rogers | 0 comments | Continued-
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