Archive for William Henry Chamberlin
If There Were No Capitalism
“If there were no God it would be necessary to invent
Him.”
Thus the witty and skeptical Voltaires phrase could also be applied to the economic system known as capitalism, often buried with much pomp and circumstance by communist, socialist, and assorted left-wing theorists, but so resilient that it will most probably outlive the memory of
most of its critics.
Some Mistakes of Marx
William Henry Chamberlin (18971969) was a frequent contributor to The Freeman. Author of the Russian Revolution and numerous other books and articles on world affairs, he was uniquely qualified to discuss Marxian errors by having lived and traveled where such mistakes are obvious. It is especially timely to review what Chamberlin reported [...]
1Jan1982 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedA Capitalist Manifesto
The proven superiority of capitalism in solving the problems envisioned by Marx should bring forth a new manifesto.
1Jun1969 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Failing Dynamo
West German and British experiences Americans could well heed.
1May1969 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedOur Totalitarian Radicals
“A cow is a very good animal in a field; but you do not turn her into a garden.”
1Apr1969 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedHands Off Southern Africa
By what right does the U. S. Government pretend to solve the racial problems of other nations?
1Mar1969 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Collective Guilt Myth
Blaming everyone else for the faults and failures of an individual is unlikely to improve the social climate.
1Jan1969 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedSome Lessons of Rhodesia
Peace and prosperity seem to depend far more on domestic law and order than on international sanctions and other meddling.
1Jul1968 | William Henry Chamberlin | 2 comments | ContinuedMaking Travel a Crime
A government that can deny a peaceful citizen’s freedom to move is well along toward absolute tyranny.
1May1968 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedLiberty and Property: One and Inseparable
William Henry Chamberlin examines the vital link between liberty and property and shows that one is meaningless without the other.
1Jan1968 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedCommunism After Fifty Years
The fiftieth anniversary of communism in Russia affords William Henry Chamberlin an opportunity for appraisal that should be of interest to anyone who still has a choice.
1Aug1967 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedIn Memoriam: Konrad Adenauer
To bring forth the best from one’s fellow men is the quality of leadership William Henry Chamberlin would have us learn from the late Konrad Adenauer.
1Jul1967 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Gap Between Earning and Receiving
But, as William Henry Chamberlin readily perceives, not all such bungling is foreign; we have our own widening “public sector” – at public expense.
1Apr1967 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedMen, Not Money, Will Overcome Poverty
Nor does author-journalist William Henry Chamberlin expect any alleviation of poverty from the political juggling of funds by persons isolated from the problem.
1Mar1967 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedBureaucratic Blight
Give us relief, pleads William Henry Chamberlin, from the “multitude of New Offices [and] swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
1Jan1967 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedConstitutions Should Say No
The vital function of a Constitution is to place limits on the power of government, says William Henry Chamberlin, and the function of citizens is to know why.
1Jul1966 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedSocialism by Seduction
The seductive lure of government intervention, however, continues to blind citizens to the inevitable accompanying controls, finds William Henry Chamberlin.
1Jun1966 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | Continued-
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