All Posts Tagged With: "egalitarianism"
Are the Rich Necessary? Great Economic Arguments and How They Reflect Our Personal Values
George Leef is book review editor of The Freeman.
In my high school days I had a friend who had been thoroughly imbued with the socialist mindset. He was willing to concede there might be some adverse consequences if the government went too far toward equality and economic control, but was adamantly in favor of the [...]
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
Robert Frank, a professor of economics at Cornell, has long argued that affluent Americans spend too much on conspicuous consumption, which he relabels “positional” goods. His favorite examples include big houses, expensive watches, barbecue grills, and wine. If Smith has more positional goods than Jones, then Jones is said to suffer “relative deprivation” because “what [...]
22Jan2009 | Alan Reynolds | 1 comment | ContinuedA Man Who Knew the Value of Liberty
[This column was adapted from one published first by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on its website in February 2007.]
A television audience in the millions will feast on the glitz and glamor of Hollywood when the 81st Annual Academy Awards are bestowed February 22. My thoughts will be elsewhere that Sunday night—on a friend [...]
The Vanity of the Philosopher: From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics
By Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy Reviewed by Gene Callahan
1Apr2007 | Gene Callahan | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
By Walter Benn Michaels Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Apr2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – September 2004
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life
by Paul Seabright
Princeton University Press • 2004 • 304 pages • $29.95
Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
One of the most profound insights of economics is that the activities of billions of people can be coordinated without central direction and without most of these interdependent people knowing anything [...]
Book Reviews – April 2004
America the Virtuous: The Crisis of Democracy and the Quest for Empire
by Claes G. Ryn
Transaction Publishers • 2003 • 221 pages • $34.95
Reviewed by Richard Ebeling
In 1988 Robert Nisbet, one of America’s most prominent sociologists and conservative social philosophers, published The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America. He critically evaluated how American society [...]
What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen
This excerpt is from the first chapter of Selected Essays on Political Economy, translated by Seymour Cain and edited by George B. de Huszar, published by the Foundation for Economic Education.
In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, [...]
The Ideals of Tyranny
Socialism, along with other movements founded on egalitarianism, has often been held up as a moral ideal. Many people consider the drive for “equality” to be laudable. It is frequently claimed, however, that socialism, although based on a moral principle, failed because it used immoral means to obtain its ends.
1Mar2001 | Jim Peron | 0 comments | ContinuedHospital Food and Socialized Medicine
Last September, a colleague of mine visited Manitoba, a province in central Canada. Electioneering was at a fever pitch, with just a few days left before voting for a variety of public offices. My friend was astonished to observe that the dominant issue was indeed hospital food. It had become a political hot potato, the candidates outdoing one another to express concern and promise action.
1Mar2000 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued-
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
