All Posts Tagged With: "Daniel Yergin"
We’re Running Out of Oil?
The rise in gasoline prices in the United States has become a political issue. Each side panders to its own constituency with the most extreme arguments and factoids, leaving precious little in the middle ground of common sense. Take, for example, the March op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by Paul Roberts, “Say Bye-Bye to [...]
1Sep2004 | John Jennrich | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Commanding Heights: The Battle Between Government and the Marketplace That Is Remaking the World by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
Simon and Schuster • 1998 • 352 pages • $26.00 The danger in telling a good story is often the sacrifice of key facts, thereby distorting the reader’s understanding of reality. In The Commanding Heights, authors Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw describe the epic twentieth-century conflict between socialists and market advocates. This is an extremely [...]
1Jan1999 | David L. Littmann | 0 comments | ContinuedToday’s Most Influential Economist?
Fill in the blank. Who is the mysterious economist named above? Most of my colleagues named Milton Friedman, but in Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw’s bestseller, the Chicago economist runs a close second to. . . .
F.A. Hayek, the Austrian economist!
Why Hayek? Because,
1May1998 | Mark Skousen | 2 comments | ContinuedDrawing the Line
Socialism and communism have collapsed so completely that only a few holdouts refuse to acknowledge the rubble before their eyes. We’ve apparently reached “the end of history,” as Francis Fukuyama labeled the post cold-war era a few years ago. But appearances can deceive. Capitalism may look triumphant, but some people are clearly uncomfortable with the [...]
1May1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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