All Posts Tagged With: "farm policy"
Local Food Makes Strange Dining Companions
Ironically enough, while many so-called liberals express skepticism about laissez-faire economies, they are the first to indignantly resist intrusion by bureaucrats into local farmers’ markets.
1Jun2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 14 comments | ContinuedFDR’s Lucky Timing
It’s not clear how any of FDR’s 1933 policies could have accounted for a 17 percent increase in GDP, even if they promoted expansion, because they wouldn’t have had time to ripple through the economy. It seems more likely that FDR had the good fortune to come into office near the bottom of the Depression, and enough adjustments in wages, prices, and other factors had occurred that the economy was ready to recover.
10Jun2009 | Jim Powell | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Freedom Revolution
What lifts this book above the pack is extensive use of Armey’s Axioms—witty though incisive truisms on public policy, from a man in a position to know. The author is the House Majority Leader, an architect of the “Contract with America,” a champion of the flat tax, and a former economics professor at the University [...]
1Feb1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomic Ends and Means
“It is common to see good intentions, if they are carried out without moderation, push man into very vicious results.” —Montaigne In the current debate over federal farm policy, those who express concern at the government’s mountainous holdings of surplus agricultural products are accused of lacking sympathy with the plight of the farmer. When the [...]
1Jul1956 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Farm Problem
This article, under the title “The Wrong Track?” was first printed in The Prairie Farmer, February 19, 1955, A County Agent fears that the farmers’ acceptance of subsidies will be used by government as proof that it has thereby acquired the right to control their lands Washington is again ringing with debate about the farm [...]
1May1955 | M. H. Banner | 0 comments | Continued-
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