All Posts Tagged With: "free enterprise"
Everybody Wins! A Life in Free Enterprise by Gordon Cain
Chemical Heritage Press • 1997 • 342 pages • $24.95 Mr. Bradley is president of the Institute for Energy Research in Houston, Texas. On the surface, this autobiography describes how an individual well past retirement age restructured major assets in the domestic chemical/petrochemical industry through leveraged buyouts (LBOs) to create several billion dollars of wealth [...]
1Nov1997 | Robert L. Bradley Jr. | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Young Entrepreneur’s Guide To Starting and Running a Business by Steve Mariotti
Times Business • 1996 • 322 pages • $15.00 Richard A. Cooper makes his living as an export-import manager while exploring ideas as a freelance writer. Steve Mariotti was mugged twice—once by the hoodlums who beat him while jogging on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and then by the realization that these street punks [...]
1Sep1997 | Richard A. Cooper | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Enterprise Moves East: Doing Business from Prague to Vladivostok
Dr. Sabrin is professor of finance at Ramapo College of New Jersey and author of Tax Free 2000: The Rebirth of American Liberty. The genie is out of the bottle. From the heart of Central Europe to the easternmost regions of the former Soviet Union, the capitalist revolution has taken root—deeply in some areas, less [...]
1Dec1996 | Murray Sabrin | 0 comments | ContinuedKilling Enterprise
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). The Big Apple, as New York City is known, is a bustling, energetic metropolis that nevertheless remains a difficult place for all [...]
1Nov1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedMust the News Media Be Inimical to Freedom?
It would be easy to conclude that there is an intrinsic conflict of interest between the news media and liberty. Whether intended or not, news coverage by and large seems consistently to undermine the classical liberal premise that society essentially runs itself without central direction. There are multiple explanations for that phenomenon. It has long [...]
1Sep1996 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedRussell Kirk’s Economics of the Permanent Things
John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While Russell Kirk (1918-1994) is properly recognized for his role in reviving American conservative thought, his ruminations on economics have received little attention. Yet he gave economics due consideration, and was a sturdy friend of economic freedom and a foe of statism. Moreover, because he [...]
1Apr1996 | John Attarian | 0 comments | ContinuedNo, Fred, There Is No Free Enterprise–At Least Not Here
Dr. Ahlseen is Associate Professor of Economics at King College in Bristol, Tennessee. Each passing year results in more government regulation and control over private sector production. It has become increasingly difficult for entrepreneurs to gain official approval to initiate and sustain an enterprise. Such impediments are a form of what Frederic Bastiat called legal [...]
1Feb1996 | Mark Ahlseen | 0 comments | ContinuedOut of Focus: Network Television and the American Economy
On the evening I finished reading Out of Focus, ABC television coincidentally ran a program entitled “The Blame Game.” I watched in amazement as reporter John Stossel developed a story about the United States becoming a nation of victims. Stossel explored how various government programs, such as welfare, and regulations like the Americans with Disabilities [...]
1Aug1995 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedAs Frank Chodorov Sees It
“You fellows,” say the interventionists, “don’t know what you want. You are always against, never for, anything. and you are often in disagreement as to what you are against. Some of you are against tariffs; others are not. You all talk about the free economy and small government, but you never agree on what limits [...]
1Feb1956 | Frank Chodorov | 2 comments | ContinuedLetters
Private Education For All Education should be viewed from the standpoint of the individual and thus it becomes the responsibility of the parents and not the responsibility of the State. It is recognized that it is the duty of the parents to feed the child’s stomach. Consistency demands that it is also the duty of [...]
1Feb1956 | O.B. Johannsen | 0 comments | ContinuedTalking To Ourselves
Mr. Weaver (1889-1949) is the author of The mainspring of Human Progress. Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing “But what’s the use of talking to ourselves? What’s the point of sending literature on free enterprise to people who [...]
1Sep1955 | Henry Grady Weaver | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Essence Of Capitalism
Mr. Buck is statistician of The Toronto Dominion Bank. One of the inescapable facts of human life is that we must choose among alternatives. That fact furnishes us the clue to economic science. It is as simple as this. Two years ago, I wanted to hear a recital by Anna Russell and an address by [...]
1Sep1955 | Hart Buck | 0 comments | Continued-
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