All Posts Tagged With: "Ford"
Bailing Out the Big Three Repeats Britain’s Mistake
A major reason for any kind of historical writing is to provide guidance for the present. As we read an account of the past, we may see similarities to the present and (we may hope) avoid repeating the same kinds of mistakes. In this sense historiography forms part of the collective memory of a society [...]
28Feb2009 | Stephen Davies | 3 comments | ContinuedHow Henry Ford Zapped a Licensing Monopoly
Melvin Barger is a retired corporate public relations representative and writer who lives in Toledo, Ohio. More books have been written about auto pioneer Henry Ford than any other person in the car business. Though he had critics, the judgment of history is that he put the world on wheels with his famous Model T. [...]
1Dec2001 | Melvin D. Barger | 0 comments | ContinuedDeath by Government Protection
Purely for the sake of discussion, let’s assume the worst about Firestone and Ford: that gross negligence led to the production of tires that killed and injured people riding in Ford Explorers. What does this add to the debate between capitalism and the regulatory state? Crusaders for government regulation think it adds a great deal. [...]
1Dec2000 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedAntitrust Protects Competition?
Conservative William Safire’s column “The Curse of Bigness” (New York Times, December 13, 1999) is dedicated to “exploding myths” allegedly spread by MCI, WorldCom, Sprint, and other large firms seeking government approval for prospective mergers that will serve to magnify their market power. Satire opens innocuously enough with the comfortable platitude that “Competition is the [...]
1Apr2000 | Joseph T. Salerno | 0 comments | ContinuedDo Corporations Have Social Responsibilities?
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a public-policy think tank in North Carolina, and the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press, 1996). Businesses are accustomed to being criticized for neglecting their responsibilities to society. Complaints that private enterprise puts profit before people have long provided reliable [...]
1Nov1998 | John Hood | 26 comments | ContinuedDoes Big Mean Bad? The Economic Power of Corporations
Professor Mathews teaches economics at Brunswick College, Brunswick, Georgia. Fortune magazine annually presents its “Fortune 500” list of the 500 largest corporations. To some people, the Fortune 500 is a twisted tribute to the most greedy and baneful institution that capitalism offers: the big corporation. Critics of capitalism and big corporations often assert that such [...]
1Feb1996 | Don Mathews | 2 comments | Continued-
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