Archive for William H. Peterson
Politics By Principle, Not Interest: Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy by James M. Buchanan and Roger D. Congleton
Cambridge University Press • 1998 • 191 pages • $49.95 William Peterson, a Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Said Plato: “Morality determines politics.” Which raises a question 2,500 years later for Nobel laureate James Buchanan and fellow economist Roger Congleton: Does politics [...]
1Jan1999 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued1998 Index of Economic Freedom
William Peterson, an adjunct scholar with the Heritage Foundation, is the Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. In 1989-1991 the walls of Eurocommunism came tumbling down, including the most dramatic one of all, the Berlin Wall. Since then, like a fresh breeze blowing around the world, the watchword for [...]
1Jul1998 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Mainspring of Human Progress
William Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is the Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of business philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. “There can be no progress except through the more effective use of our individual energies.” The emblazonment of this quotation on the front cover of the new edition of Henry Grady [...]
1Jun1998 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Templeton Honor Rolls for Education in a Free Society, 1997-1998, 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 best individuals [...]
1Mar1998 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedNew 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 in 1803. And [...]
1Jan1998 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedPBS: 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 will?”—how about the [...]
1Oct1997 | William H. Peterson | 5 comments | ContinuedYes, 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 fruit and [...]
1Sep1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe 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. Asked Shakespeare’s Juliet: What’s in a name? Yesterday conservatism was in as the name of what could be called the free-society movement. Today, [...]
1Jul1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe 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 [...]
1Jun1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedWisdom 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 Hazlitt, 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 [...]
1May1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook 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 [...]
1Apr1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook 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. [...]
1Mar1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook 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 [...]
1Feb1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook 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 [...]
1Jan1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Flat Tax: Freedom, Fairness, Jobs, and Growth
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 working for government—federal, state, and local—and at last starts working for [...]
1Sep1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedA History of the Mont Pelerin Society
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 points to Britain’s Fabian Society as a counterpoint to MPS, [...]
1Jul1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy
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 about 75 percent while blacks concur with the verdict [...]
1Jun1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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