All Posts Tagged With: "corporatism"
Capitalism, Corporatism, and the Freed Market
The system that most immediately threatens individual liberty is corporatism.
3Feb2012 | Sheldon Richman | 21 comments | ContinuedThe Mobility Gap: What Does It Mean?
“Americans enjoy less economic mobility than their peers in Canada and much of Western Europe.”
6Jan2012 | Sheldon Richman | 16 comments | ContinuedThe Twisted Tree of Progressivism
Sorting out the Progressive movement and its constituent ideologies can be difficult in that the very term “progressive” is burdened with contested meanings. Rather than work along lines agreeable to presently out-of-office politicians hoping to regain power by denouncing long-dead Progressives, we begin with some deep background. One portent of Progressivism is found in the [...]
30Nov2011 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 24 comments | ContinuedThey’re Not Insulting Our Mothers
That the wealth of the nonrich has grown is no reason to be complacent about corporatism. It simply shows that something less than complete freedom goes a long way.
4Nov2011 | Sheldon Richman | 33 comments | ContinuedCorporatism and Power to the People
In a freed market the power rests with the 99 percent of us who buy the products, not the 1 percent who sell them.
13Oct2011 | Steven Horwitz | 56 comments | ContinuedObama’s Corporatist Big Plans
We should reject the false choice between corporate statism and stagnation, and say no thank you to the “big things” Obama and his business cronies have in store for us.
28Jan2011 | Sheldon Richman | 22 comments | ContinuedThe Charade
Writing in Forbes recently, Dinesh D’Souza presents the bizarre idea that Barack Obama’s presidency can be best understood by realizing that “Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s [that is, Obama’s late estranged Kenyan father]. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world [...]
22Dec2010 | Sheldon Richman | 10 comments | ContinuedThe Most Dangerous Derivative
In the October 1962 issue of The Freeman an obscure 28-year-old lawyer wrote, in one of his first published works, “Giant government has outgrown the capacity of the institutions designed to restrain its encroachments and abuses. . . . [F]reedom, to be meaningful, must find direct expression in practice as well as in principle.” The [...]
22Oct2010 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Distorting Effects of Transportation Subsidies
Although critics on the left are very astute in describing the evils of present-day society, they usually fail to understand either the root of those problems (government intervention) or their solution (the operation of a freed market). In Progressive commentary on energy, pollution, and so on—otherwise often quite insightful—calls for government intervention are quite common. [...]
22Oct2010 | Kevin A. Carson | 51 comments | ContinuedThere’s Too Little Trust in Government?
There is one point on which I can unequivocally agree with E. J. Dionne, Jr.’s, column “Can We Reverse the Tide on Government Distrust?”: “So far, the Obama administration has missed the opportunity to demonstrate . . . how it is changing the way government works. How is its approach to . . . regulations [...]
22Oct2010 | Charles Johnson | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Most Dangerous Derivative
An unlikely alliance may be forming among people who would not ordinarily be found in the same room.
20Aug2010 | Sheldon Richman | 65 comments | ContinuedObamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
In his previous book, The Big Ripoff (reviewed in the June 2007 Freeman), author Timothy Carney launched an attack on two of America’s preeminent political myths—that the Democrats are “the party of the little guy” and the Republicans are “the party of free enterprise.” Both notions are useful to candidates in the endless quest for [...]
20May2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Washington-Wall Street Kabuki Dance
When I watch the public furor over the ruling party’s attempt to “toughen” regulations on the financial industry, I get the same feeling I often have in a theater: Good show but it’s not real.
23Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 5 comments | ContinuedIs Obama a Socialist?
President Obama is not a socialist, at least not in the usual ways that term is used. However, that hardly means his ideas are not of concern.
22Apr2010 | Steven Horwitz | 56 comments | ContinuedThe State of Obama’s Union
Despite what some popular right-wing talk-show hosts claim, Barack Obama is not pushing Marxism, revolutionary or otherwise. He’s pushing good old American progressive-corporate elitism.
29Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 23 comments | ContinuedTGIF: What Next?
Liberty always walks uphill. Read the rest here.
1Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerica: Corporate State
At ThinkMarkets, Gerald O’Driscoll, building on a Wall Street Journal column by George Melloan, describes how Fed policy is leading America further down the corporatist road. Here’s a sample: Melloan doesn’t state it, but there is a name for this economic policy: corporatism. Big government favors selected big business and rewards big labor as a [...]
25Nov2009 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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