All Posts Tagged With: "Ebenezer Scrooge"
The Lesson of Ebenezer Scrooge
In 2003, I co-led a successful fight against Measure Q, which would have increased the Monterey County, Calif., sales tax to fund a failing government hospital. One proponent of the tax labeled me a Scrooge. She was referring, of course, to Ebenezer Scrooge, the protagonist of Charles Dickens’s famous novel A Christmas Carol—and of the [...]
1Dec2007 | David R. Henderson | 16 comments | ContinuedReclassifying a Classic
Daniel Oliver is a research associate at the Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center (http://www.capitalresearch.org) and a freelance writer. A version of this article originally appeared in the December 26, 1997, Wall Street Journal. For a century and a half, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) has been read and reread, told and retold, performed [...]
1Dec1999 | Daniel T. Oliver | 24 comments | ContinuedEbenezer Scrooge and the Free Society
Behaving in a self-interested manner does not mean disregarding others. On the contrary, because we are social beings who depend on, and often care deeply about many others around us, a sound attention to our self-interest must include a great deal of concern for others.
1Dec1988 | Howard Baetjer Jr. | 11 comments | Continued-
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