All Posts Tagged With: "Fred McChesney"
Regulatory Extortion
Thomas DiLorenzo is a professor of economics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. This article is based on a presentation prepared for the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference, “Austrian Economics and the Financial Markets,” last September in Toronto. In 1978 Michael Jensen and William Meckling, writing in the Financial Analysts Journal, offered an extraordinarily gloomy [...]
1Mar2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 8 comments | ContinuedMoney for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction, and Political Extortion by Fred McChesney
Harvard University Press • 1997 • 230 pages • $35.00 Roger Meiners is a professor of law and economics at the University of Texas-Arlington and senior associate at the Political Economy Research Center. As F. A. Hayek explained in his introduction to The Road to Serfdom, a half-century ago the future of the world was [...]
1Apr1998 | Roger E. Meiners | 0 comments | Continued-
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