All Posts Tagged With: "census"
Maps and Power
The modern world (meaning since the later eighteenth century) is different in several profound ways from earlier times. One of the most important of these is the nature and power of government. Modern States can do things beyond the reach of earlier ones, however large or aggressive. This expanded capacity is a feature of modern [...]
23Mar2011 | Stephen Davies | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Census: Vehicle for Social Engineering
In his book Seeing Like a State, James Scott commented on the role played by census data in the rise of the modern State: “If we imagine a state that has no reliable means of enumerating and locating its population, gauging its wealth, and mapping its land, resources, and settlements, we are imagining a state [...]
19Apr2010 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | ContinuedApril Fool’s: Census Day
Did you mail your census form in? You can be fined up to $5,000 for not doing so and for refusing to cooperate when you are visited by a deputy of the U.S. government, who will come to your home to get the answers out of you if you happen to lose your form. Fined? [...]
1Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 4 comments | ContinuedNone of Your Business
The 2010 Census form arrived yesterday. I got an immediate chuckle. The first thing it asks is now many people were “living or staying in this apartment, house, or mobile home on April 1, 2010″ (emphasis added.) Odd. If this is a national head count, why does the government want to know how many guests I [...]
16Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 18 comments | ContinuedThe Census: Vehicle for Social Engineering
The census in a welfare state creates a dynamic in which the exercise of one person’s rights ostensibly damages the interests others.
23Feb2010 | Wendy McElroy | 9 comments | ContinuedThe Census: Inquiring Minds Want to Know a Lot
What the federal bureaucracy calls “the largest peacetime mobilization effort in U.S. history” is now underway. It’s the 2000 census—and if you’re an American citizen, it’s got a few questions for you. As many as 53, in fact. America’s founders felt it was important enough to know how many people lived in the country that [...]
1May2000 | Lawrence W. Reed | 18 comments | ContinuedStatistics: A Vehicle for Collectivist Mischief
John Wenders is professor of economics at the University of Idaho. Sir John Cowperthwaite served in Britain’s administration of Hong Kong for over 25 years. From 1961 to 1971 he was Hong Kong’s financial secretary, a position that gave him vast power over that colony’s economic affairs. It was under his guidance that the theory [...]
1Jun1998 | John T. Wenders | 0 comments | Continued-
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