All Posts Tagged With: "Donald Boudreaux"
Boudreaux Wins Szasz Award
Freeman columnist and George Mason University economics professor Donald Boudreaux has won the 2009 Thomas Szasz Award for Contributions to the Cause of Civil Liberties. The Szasz Award committee recognized Boudreaux for his many years of promoting freedom in all its aspects through his writing and lecturing.Boudreaux, who was FEE’s president from 1997 to 2001, [...]
13Oct2009 | Sheldon Richman | 9 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – April 2008
- Globalization by Donald J. Boudreaux Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement by Brian Doherty Reviewed by Bettina Bien Greaves
- Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie by Clayton E. Cramer Reviewed by George C. Leef
- The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond by Barry Eichengreen Reviewed by Waldemar Ingdahl
Capital Letters
Bike Helmets, Children, and Libertarian Philosophy To the Editor: In response to Ted Roberts’s article criticizing the admonishing of children to use bicycle helmets (“Take Your Bike Helmet to the Safety Museum,” February), I’d like to offer a couple of unscientific, anecdotal items from my own experience. One is from a few decades ago, when [...]
1May2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Free Martha? To the Editor: I was surprised to read January’s “Perspective” on Martha Stewart. If she lied when she said “she had a standing order to sell the stock if the price went below $60.00,” and that statement was made in the context of a criminal investigation, she could be guilty of obstruction of [...]
1Apr2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
The Roll of Toll Roads To the Editor: I liked Scott McPherson’s article ["Private Road to Freedom," April] but was somewhat surprised that he made no mention of the fact that private toll roads were all this country had when roads were first developed. It was only when local governments started to interfere by insisting [...]
1Aug2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
To the Editor: Professor Donald J. Boudreaux’s views against government-financed adjustment assistance to workers harmed by free trade (“Compensate Workers Harmed by Trade?” November 2001) seem well-taken-except for one thing. The influence of freer trade on competition between domestic and imported products isn’t a natural phenomenon like a climate change. Rather, it’s a market transformation [...]
1Mar2002 | mnolan | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Is the State Needed for Defensive Force? To the Editor: Donald Boudreaux, in “The ‘A’ Word” (July 2001), says “it’s possible that even the best feasible stateless society will be worse than a society with a well-structured government constitutionally limited to protecting its citizens from violence and theft. But let the case be made.” I [...]
1Nov2001 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
The State of the Comic Book To the Editor: I enjoyed Raymond Keating’s article on comic books in the May 2001 issue of Ideas on Liberty. I was surprised to see something like this covered in the magazine, and he did the topic justice. His comments on Captain America were particularly enlightening, since I had [...]
1Sep2001 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued-
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