Archive for William L. Baker
Book Review: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton and Rose Friedman
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 757 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017) 1979 • 338 pages • $9.95 cloth Steamroller government is the bane of twentieth century life. It is the trademark of our time. Expanding budgets, unfettered taxation, galloping inflation, burgeoning bureaucracy, tireless assaults upon individualism and productivity are the tragic earmarks of our painfully [...]
1Aug1980 | William L. Baker | 0 comments | ContinuedFrederic Bastiat: Harmonious Warrior
Mr. Baker teaches in the school system in Lubbock, Texas. Ah! whenever you come to pronounce these words, I BELIEVE you will be anxious to propagate your creed, and the social problem will soon be resolved, for let them say what they will it is not of difficult solution. Men’s interests are harmonious,—the solution then [...]
1Apr1980 | William L. Baker | 0 comments | ContinuedMarx and the Manifesto
A scholarly inspection of the shaky platform of Marxist economic theory.
1Nov1979 | William L. Baker | 0 comments | ContinuedNative Pottery Only
A study of the harmful effects of “protectionism,” as applied during the Civil Waror today.
1Dec1978 | William L. Baker | 0 comments | ContinuedInflation and Stabilization: The Elusive Promise
Whether government intervenes to inflate or to stabilize the money supply, the effect is to frustrate producers and consumers.
1Aug1977 | William L. Baker | 0 comments | Continued-
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