All Posts Tagged With: "Bill Gates"

Gates on Market Superiority

Matthew Bishop interviewed Bill Gates the other day for The Economist about Gates’ letter that he wrote to citizens.  It’s worth watching for a number of reasons.  First, because of what Mr. Gates has to say about the role of private enterprise in social aid (approximately 2:19 into the interview), and second, because of his [...]

28Jan2009 | Margaret Morgan | 0 comments | Continued

The Microsoft Case: Divestiture Won’t Help Consumers

D. T. Armentano is professor emeritus in economics at the University of Hartford and author of Antitrust and Monopoly (Independent Institute) and Antitrust: The Case for Repeal (Mises Institute). Critics of Microsoft, rallied by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s finding that the company has monopoly power over much of the computer industry, have urged a breakup [...]

1Apr2000 | D. T. Armentano | 0 comments | Continued

Barbarians at Bill Gates

William Shughart is the Frederick A. P. Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics and holder of the Robert M. Hearin Chair in Business Administration at the University of Mississippi. It was a glorious fall day on the East Coast when Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Joel Klein stepped up to the microphone at a news conference [...]

1Apr2000 | William F. Shughart II | 0 comments | Continued

Opening Pandora’s Box

Dan Fylstra has been involved in the PC industry since its inception. He was founding associate editor of BYTE Magazine in 1975, and founder of VisiCorp in 1979. He is currently president of the PC software vendor Frontline Systems, Inc. This is excerpted from a longer “open letter” distributed on the Internet. Last year, Netscape [...]

1Nov1998 | Dan Fylstra | 0 comments | Continued

Arrogant Antitrusters

Here’s a quiz. I’ll first give you background facts, then ask you a question. Please answer “yes” or “no.” Facts: I have no experience in, or knowledge about, running a dry-cleaning establishment. I’m an economist who has spent his career teaching economics. My only experience with dry-cleaning firms is that I use them to clean [...]

1Aug1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | Continued

Barbarians at the Gates

I stand second to none in my admiration for Bill Gates. He is the model of a man who gets pure pleasure from exercising his intellect. In the process, he has helped bring on the technological revolution that has made life so much better. That explains his astounding fortune. It also explains the envy on [...]

1Jul1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

The Ghost of John D. Rockefeller

At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on competitiveness in the computer industry last March, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was compared to the infamous “robber baron” John D. Rockefeller and his company likened to the Standard Oil Company of the late nineteenth century. Federal Trade Commission chairman Robert Pitofsky made a similar analogy in a Washington [...]

1Jun1998 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | Continued

Bill Gates, Philanthropist

Let’s review the familiar refrains on charitable giving. Social democrats criticize tycoons for not giving more of their wealth to charities. Business people are repeatedly admonished to “give something back.” The implication is that commercial profits are taken from others, and decency demands that the lucky takers return at least part of their booty to [...]

1Jan1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued

The Road Ahead

An odd breed of business executive regularly appears on the public-policy landscape—the supporter of big government in business. Big government boosters favor not only corporate welfare initiatives, but a host of other interventions, including research and development, education, pork-barrel subsidies, and even expanded social welfare programs. Interestingly, many—but not all—of these statist business executives tend [...]

1Nov1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | Continued

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