All Posts Tagged With: "Diocletian"
The Roots of Economic Understanding
The game of economics in the United States is something like a ball game where the home team fails to score. The record shows a lack of economic understanding. Despite the abundance of material splendor parading before us in the show of ostentatious consumption, we seem to be losing most of our games in terms [...]
1May2005 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | ContinuedHomeland Security Circa AD 285
Alexis de Tocqueville said that nothing is so threatening to individual liberty as extended war. Wars add to the relative power of the central government, and this change in the balance of power is accompanied by the decline of personal freedom. “A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat [...]
1Apr2003 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 3 comments | ContinuedWe Have Yet to Learn
Mr. MacDonald, a trustee of The Foundation for Economic Education, resides in Issaquah, Washington. The ideas of man, expressed in one way or another, have come down to us over and over again for the past 50 centuries. As we approach the twenty-first century, it is almost impossible to come up with an original thought. [...]
1Mar1997 | Gregg MacDonald | 0 comments | ContinuedAncient Lessons
Mr. Maccaro practices law on Long Island, New York. The history of ancient Rome repeatedly demonstrates the connection between low taxes and prosperity. It also shows the connection between confiscatory taxes and political and social unrest. As the Roman empire expanded, so did the emperors’ appetites for revenue. Taxes reached the point that most people [...]
1Aug1996 | James A. Maccaro | 1 comment | Continued-
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