All Posts Tagged With: "charitable giving"
Who Owes What to Whom?
Note: This column first appeared in the February 2002 issue of The Freeman. For a society that has fed, clothed, housed, cared for, informed, entertained, and otherwise enriched more people at higher levels than any in the history of the planet, there sure is a lot of groundless guilt in America. Manifestations of that guilt [...]
24Apr2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 8 comments | ContinuedThe Shortcomings of Government Charity
Jude Blanchette is a freelance writer living in China. In their book, Myths of Rich and Poor, W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm observe, “Some part of human nature connects with the apocalyptic. Time and again, the pessimists among us have envisioned the world going straight to hell.” To be sure, “pessimists” apparently run most [...]
1May2007 | Jude Blanchette | 4 comments | ContinuedBook Review: American Foundations, by Mark Dowie
American Foundations by Mark Dowie MIT Press • 2001 • 298 pages • $29.95 Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster Nearly all large foundations follow thi: pattern in their history. They an founded by heroic entrepreneurs whc championed free enterprise and individua liberty. Within one generation after theii founder’s deaths, these foundations are ther captured by [...]
1Jan2003 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedWho Owes What to Whom?
For a society that has fed, clothed, housed, cared for, informed, entertained, and otherwise enriched more people at higher levels than any in the history of the planet, there sure is a lot of groundless guilt in America. Manifestations of that guilt abound. The example that peeves me the most is the one we often [...]
1Feb2002 | Lawrence W. Reed | 2 comments | ContinuedTitan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
Random House • 1998 • 774 pages • $30.00 D. T. Armentano, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Hartford, is the author of Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure. For me, this is the image that sticks: John D. Rockefeller, president of Standard Oil, age 57, in bicycle suit and goggles, [...]
1Jan1999 | D. T. Armentano | 0 comments | ContinuedBill 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-
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