Archive for William Henry Chamberlin
The Cure of Poverty
William Henry Chamberlin concludes that there is no reliable substitute for individual effort as a cure for poverty.
1Feb1966 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedState Economic Planning: Tragedy or Futility
William Henry Chamberlin, an eyewitness to Stalin’s famine in 1932-33, points out that central government planning fails miserably wherever tried.
1Jan1966 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedGermans Vote for Economic Freedom
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. His recent writings include The German Phoenix (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1963). For Ludwig Erhard, principal author of the German economic miracle, the result of the recent German national election must have been one of his [...]
1Dec1965 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Great Communist Schism
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. Between 1917 and 1949, within the span of a generation, communism achieved a leap from the status of the small, little-known political sect in the Russian revolutionary movement to a system that dominated the lives of one-third of [...]
1Jul1965 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedMusic Forced Feeding
Though best known for his skilled observation and reporting of economic and political conditions at home and abroad, Mr. Chamberlin also writes knowingly as a patron of music and the arts. A violation of cultural freedom, of the right to reject as well as accept, is the sandwich type program which has become standard for [...]
1Jun1965 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedGroping for the Secret of Fire
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. In addition to writing a number of books, he has lectured widely and is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and numerous magazines. Suppose that a primitive tribe in a distant jungle had forgotten the secret of [...]
1May1965 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Wisdom of Bastiat
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. In addition to writing a number of books, he has lectured widely and is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and numerous magazines. Among the intellectual champions of the free economy, none surpasses in brilliance, clarity, wit, [...]
1Apr1965 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | ContinuedA Moral Code for Rational Man
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. In addition to writing a number of books, he has lectured widely and is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and numerous magazines. Long a sturdy and consistent champion of the free economy, with the free market [...]
1Mar1965 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedIs the UN Really Necessary?
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. In addition to writing a number of books, he has lectured widely and is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and numerous magazines. The United Nations has been and is the recipient of an enormous amount of [...]
1Jan1965 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedGiving Versus Earning
Government “gifts” of what the recipient has not earned not only rob him of his self-respect, says William Henry Chamberlin, but also dry up the source of such largesse.
1Dec1964 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Strange Death of Liberalism
The excesses of the modern, and false, liberalism, says William Henry Chamberlin, are culminating in its downfall.
1Sep1964 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedA Trumpet Call To Freedom: Twenty Years After
After twenty years, thinks William Henry Chamberlin, Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom” and its plea for liberty remains “the best tract of its kind for the times.”
1Aug1964 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Twilight of the Planners
William Henry Chamberlin offers new proof that planned coercion yields neither prosperity nor peace in other lands.
1May1964 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedAmericas Built-in Unemployment
As long as we persist in paying men not to work and passing laws making it next to impossible for the youngsters and the oldsters to find job opportunities, William Henry Chamberlin thinks we’ll have automatic unemployment.
1Feb1964 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe UN Threat to the US
Could Lorenzo the Magnificent have functioned as well through a United Nations Organization? William Henry Chamberlin has some reasonable doubts.
1Jan1964 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerica’s Unique Happy-Ending Revolution
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. He has written a number of books, has lectured widely, and is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and many nationally known magazines. Unlike Hollywood films, big revolutions rarely have happy endings. The victory of the parliamentary [...]
1Oct1963 | William Henry Chamberlin | 0 comments | ContinuedMan’s Destiny–Forced or Free
Mr. Chamberlin is a skilled observer and reporter of economic and political conditions at home and abroad. He has written a number of books, has lectured widely, and is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and many nationally known magazines. The underlying basis of a free political system and a free economy is moral. [...]
1Aug1963 | William Henry Chamberlin | 1 comment | Continued-
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JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
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For Equality; Against Privilege
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