All Posts Tagged With: "Conscription"
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
If you had a childhood interest in pirates and a teenage love for economics, what would you do as an adult? If you are George Mason University economics professor Peter Leeson, you write a book on the economics of piracy. That book, The Invisible Hook, is a rollicking good read—more fun than any person should [...]
29Jun2010 | E. Frank Stephenson | 3 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – October 2003
The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I by Thomas Fleming Basic Books • 2003 • 543 pages • $30.00 Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling Imagine how different the twentieth century might have been if Lenin and the Bolsheviks had never come to power in Russia in 1917 and had not set in motion all the cruel crimes that were [...]
1Oct2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedNeither Slavery Nor Involuntary Servitude
The title of this essay refers to two things that are prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The first is no longer even controversial, yet the second is being suggested right now by several prominent academics and, more frighteningly, members of Congress. Despite the successes of the all-volunteer military currently employed by [...]
1Sep2003 | Aeon J. Skoble | 0 comments | ContinuedWartime Curbs on Liberty Are Costless?
In one of the most provocative opinion articles of recent times, “Security Comes Before Liberty” (Wall Street Journal, October 23, 2001), Jay Winik argued (1) that in previous national emergencies, U.S. presidents took strong repressive measures against citizens and other residents of the country, (2) that the repressive measures implemented so far by the Bush [...]
1Mar2002 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedMaking Terrorists Pay
If there is one lesson the United States must teach after the September 11 atrocities, it is that terrorism does not pay. Washington should allow, indeed encourage, victims of terrorism to go after the assets of the perpetrators. A pregnant widow of one of the victims of the World Trade Center attack was the first [...]
1Feb2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedMere Isolationism: The Foreign Policy of the Old Right
One of the “lost causes” to which libertarians are attached—and one of the most important—is that of the “isolationist” Old Right. As used by the late Murray Rothbard, among others, the term “Old Right” refers to a loose coalition opposed to the New Deal in both its domestic and foreign aspects. While not following a [...]
1Feb2000 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Ain’t Broke: The Renewed Call for Conscription
The draft has been dead for more than a quarter century. Despite a rocky start, the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) now provides America with the highest quality military in its history and the finest armed services in the world. Yet recruiting and retention problems have begun to appear. As a result, there are an increasing number of calls for a return to conscription.
1Feb2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedAnne Robert Jacques Turgot, Who First Put Laissez-Faire Principles into Action
By the mid-eighteenth century, a number of authors had expressed the liberating vision that came to be known as laissez faire. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot put it into action.
1Aug1997 | Jim Powell | 4 comments | ContinuedPeace and World Government
The Rev. Mr. Opitz is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. Wars aren’t what they used to be. Men went off to the Spanish-American War with all the excitement of campfire boys on a picnic. Some of them got hurt, of course, and a number succumbed to various diseases. But, [...]
1Jun1956 | Edmund A. Opitz | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Dogma of Our Times
What history will think of our times is something that only history will reveal. But, it is a good guess that it will select collectivism as the identifying characteristic of the twentieth century. For even a quick survey of the developing pattern of thought during the past fifty years shows up the dominance of one [...]
1Jun1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Conscription Idea
Dean Russell is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. “The principle of voluntarism should not be compromised.” That policy on civilian manpower was recommended to the National Security Council in a May, 1954, report from the Office of Defense Mobilization. The report suggests an extensive program of voluntary incentives as [...]
1May1955 | Dean Russell | 1 comment | Continued-
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