All Posts Tagged With: "cooperation"
The Power of Incentives
The surest way to get people to behave in desirable ways is to reward them for doing so—in other words provide them with incentives. This is so obvious that you might think it hardly deserves mention. But it does. You might say that people shouldn’t have to be rewarded (bribed) to do desirable things. Even [...]
1Jun1998 | Dwight R. Lee | 1 comment | ContinuedWhere Does Law Come From?
This article draws from a research project supported by the Earhart Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Independent Institute. The legal scholar Lon Fuller defined law as “the enterprise of subjecting human conduct to the governance of rules.” It includes basic rules of conduct as well as institutions or mechanisms for clarifying, changing, [...]
1Dec1997 | Bruce L. Benson | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
Viking • 1997 • 295 pages • $24.95 It is not uncommon for those who have been trained in economics or philosophy to arrive at the conclusion that big government is a dangerous menace, but it is an event worth noting when a scientist comes to that conclusion. The event becomes even more noteworthy if [...]
1Dec1997 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedCapitalism and Cooperation
Mr. Levite is a freelance writer residing in San Francisco, California. In a 1989 article appropriately titled “The Triumph of Capitalism,” socialist economist Robert Heilbroner, who deserves to be commended for his honesty, observed: “. . . at this moment socialism has no plausible economic framework.”[1] Perhaps socialists have finally reached the point where they [...]
1Oct1997 | Allan Levite | 0 comments | ContinuedCompetition and Cooperation
David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, is author of Libertarianism: A Primer and editor of The Libertarian Reader (both published by The Free Press, 1996). Defenders of the market process often stress the benefits of competition. The competitive process allows for constant testing, experimenting, and adapting in response to changing situations. It [...]
1Sep1997 | David Boaz | 3 comments | ContinuedBook Review: What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation by Charles Murray
Broadway Books • 1997 • 192 pages • $20.00 Mr. Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is a monthly columnist for The Freeman. Charles Murray has long been one of America’s most important social scientists. His book Losing Ground touched off a debate over welfare policy by challenging widely held misconceptions of government [...]
1Jun1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomics in One Page
Dr. Skousen is an economist at Rollins College, Department of Economics, Winter Park, Florida 32789, and editor of Forecasts & Strategies, one of the largest investment newsletters in the country. The third edition of his book Economics of a Pure Gold Standard has recently been published by FEE. What makes it [economics] most fascinating is [...]
1Jan1997 | Mark Skousen | 5 comments | ContinuedA Good Conversation and the Marketplace
Ms. Allen is a teacher-on-special-assignment in the Education Alliance of Pueblo, Colorado. Dr. Lee is Ramsey Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia. Everyone appreciates a good conversation. Through conversation people get to know one another, sort out their differences, revel in their similarities, and discover ways to cooperate and compromise to their mutual [...]
1Oct1996 | Candace Allen | 0 comments | ContinuedRevolution at the Roots: Making Our Government Smaller, Better, and Closer to Home
For the general reader, Revolution at the Roots provides a comprehensive survey of government-shrinking attempts around the nation. Prodigiously researched, it takes us to every corner of the land: welfare reform in Wisconsin, Michigan, and New Jersey; budget control in New York and Philadelphia; tax and spending limits in Arizona and Colorado; community policing in [...]
1Apr1996 | James L. Payne | 0 comments | ContinuedCompetition and Cooperation
Drs. Boudreaux and Macaulay are faculty members at Clemson University. Free-market competition is often described as “cutthroat” and “wasteful.” “Dog-eat-dog” rivalries are fueled by “greedy self-interests” operating according to “the law of the jungle” in which “survival of the fittest” is the only rule. In contrast, government regulation is said to have the potential to [...]
1Mar1996 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | ContinuedServing Others
Mr. Fairless is Chairman of the Executive Advisory Committee, United States Steel Corporation. Ours would indeed be a sorry world if self-interest did not activate individuals to serve one another. As far as I know, there are only two basic motivations that cause you and me and other people to serve our neighbors voluntarily and [...]
1Jul1956 | Benjamin F. Fairless | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Humanity of Trade
Far better that men come together for peaceful trade than meet on a battlefield. Wherever two boys swap tops for marbles, that is the market place. The simple barter is in terms of human happiness no different from a trade transaction involving banking operations, insurance, ships, railroads, wholesale and retail establishments; for in any case [...]
1Jul1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | Continued-
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