Archive for William H. Peterson
Book Review ~ The Templeton Honor Rolls for Education in a Free Society, 19971998 Foreword by William E. Simon
John Templeton Foundation/Intercollegiate Studies Institute • 1997 • 193 pages • $3.95 paperback
William Peterson, Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus in Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina.
Sir John Templeton, brilliant long-time international investor and co-publisher of this work, established the Templeton Honor Rolls to recognize the [...]
Book Review ~ New York by the Numbers: State & City in Perpetual Crisis by Raymond J. Keating
Madison Books • 997 • 640 pages • $29.95
William Peterson is a Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar and Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina.
The power to tax involves the power to destroy.”
So U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall presciently declared in McCulloch v. Maryland [...]
Book Review ~ PBS: Behind the Screen by Laurence Jarvik
Prima Publishing • 1997 • 362 pages • $25.00
Dr. Peterson, adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is the Distinguished Lundy Emeritus Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina.
“If PBS won’t do it, who will?”
Clever PBS slogan all right, but as to the part about “who [...]
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Free Lunch
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina.
“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.”
So an angry Lord Jehovah thundered down on Adam and Eve—that unrighteous couple who had eaten of the forbidden [...]
Book Review: The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings From Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman edited by David Boaz
Free Press • 1997 • 476 pages • $27.50
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina.
A sked Shakespeare’s Juliet: What’s in a name? Yesterday conservatism was in as the name of what could be called the free-society movement. [...]
Book Review: The Political Racket: Deceit, Self-Interest and Corruption in American Politics by Martin L. Gross
Ballantine Books • 1996 • 263 pages • $12.50 paperback
Dr. Peterson is Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar and Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of business philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina.
Martin Gross, whose title here tells it all, sifts through a lot of political dirt. He names names—including ethically challenged politicians and special-interest PAC [...]
Wisdom of a Liberal Giant
Dr. Peterson, Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina.
He knew Milton Friedman, Henry Haz litt, William F. Buckley Jr., Ayn Rand. He was the mentor of F.A. Hayek, who went on to win the Nobel Prize in economics. He was a key [...]
Book Review: The Last Monopoly: Privatizing the Postal Service for the Information Age edited by Edward L. Hudgins
Cato Institute • 1996 • 140 pages • $9.95 paperback
Mr. Peterson, a Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar, is the Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University.
Private Postal Service in the 21st Century. That was the brave title of a 1995 Cato conference seeking privatization of the vast vertically integrated, largely unionized [...]
Book Review: The Bamboo Network: How Expatriate Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Creating a New Economic Superpower in Asia by Murray Weidenbaum and Samuel Hughes
Free Press • 1996 • 272 pages • $24.00
Dr. Peterson is this month’s guest editor.
A sharp turn in human events since the end of the Cold War is the emergence of a powerful new global economic force, one without fanfare, and in an unexpected place: Southeast Asia.
The force is the Bamboo Network. [...]
Book Review: The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good by John M. Hood
Free Press • 1996 • 266 pages • $25.00
Dr. Peterson is an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation and distinguished Lundy professor emeritus of business philosophy at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina.
In his introduction John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a former Bradley fellow at [...]
Book Review: The Social Security Fraud by Abraham Ellis
The Foundation for Economic Education • second revised edition, 1996 • 209 pages • $14.95 paperback
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated his opinion in Olmstead v. United States in [...]
Book Review: The Flat Tax: Freedom, Fairness, Jobs, and Growth by Daniel Mitchell
Regnery Publishing, Inc. • 1996 • 62 pages • $3.95 paperback
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar for the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina.
Mounting taxes push the Tax Foundation’s “Tax Freedom Day” out to May 6, a day when presumably John Q. Taxpayer stops [...]
Book Review: A History of the Mont Pelerin Society by R. M. Hartwell
Liberty Fund, Indianapolis • 1995 • 269 pages • $20.00
Dr. Peterson is an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation and the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina.
Ideas have consequences on the right and left. R. M. Hartwell of Oxford University and a recent Mont Pelerin Society president [...]
Book Review: The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
Regnery Publishing • 1995 • 254 pages • $24.95
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is the Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina.
Item: The O. J. Simpson criminal trial verdict brings gasps and cheers. Polls show whites believe “O. J.” to be guilty by [...]
Book Review: The Failure of the New Economics by Henry Hazlitt
Van Nostrand, 1959; The Foundation for Economic Education, 1995
Dr. Peterson is Distinguished Lundy Professor of Business Philosophy Emeritus at Campbell University, North Carolina.
In the beginning was Say’s Law—supply creates demand. But that was the “old economics.” Now, glory be, we’re blessed with the “New Economics”—demand creates supply—thanks to the “new” dazzling 1936 paradigm [...]
Book Review: Shake-Down: How the Government Screws You From A to Z by James Bovard
Viking • 1995 • 141 pages • $14.95
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina.
Item: A federal program routinely subsidizes welfare families living in oceanfront apartments in upscale La Jolla, California.
Item: The Food and Drug Administration refuses [...]
Perspective: Thoughts on FEE’s 50th Anniversary
It is force, not opinion, that queens its way over the world, but it is opinion that looses the force.
—Blaise Pascal, 1670
How to get from here to there—from (to supply a current benchmark on massive government) the U.S. $1.7 trillion budget, over to a widespread reaffirmation of the rule of law, [...]
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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
