All Posts Tagged With: "A Christmas Carol"
The Economics of Caring and Sharing
The author would like to thank the Earhart Foundation for supporting his previous research on happiness, which led to considerations on which the present paper is based. If we were to apply the unmodified, uncurbed rules of the micro-cosmos (i.e., of the small band or troop, or say our families) to the macro-cosmos (our wider [...]
22Jun2011 | Dwight R. Lee | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Lesson of Ebenezer Scrooge
In 2003, I co-led a successful fight against Measure Q, which would have increased the Monterey County, Calif., sales tax to fund a failing government hospital. One proponent of the tax labeled me a Scrooge. She was referring, of course, to Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of Charles Dickens’s famous novel A Christmas Carol—and of the [...]
1Dec2007 | David R. Henderson | 16 comments | ContinuedReclassifying a Classic
Daniel Oliver is a research associate at the Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center (http://www.capitalresearch.org) and a freelance writer. A version of this article originally appeared in the December 26, 1997, Wall Street Journal. For a century and a half, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) has been read and reread, told and retold, performed [...]
1Dec1999 | Daniel T. Oliver | 24 comments | ContinuedEbenezer Scrooge and the Free Society
Behaving in a self-interested manner does not mean disregarding others. On the contrary, because we are social beings who depend on, and often care deeply about many others around us, a sound attention to our self-interest must include a great deal of concern for others.
1Dec1988 | Howard Baetjer Jr. | 11 comments | Continued-
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