All Posts Tagged With: "government control"
The Misplaced Acceptance of Political Leaders
Richard Ebeling is the president of FEE. This is an election year, and as in all past election years we are inundated with promises and proposals from candidates, each hoping to attract our votes. For the most part what they are promising is “leadership.” They tell us all the things they will do for us [...]
1Sep2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedNo More Czars, Please
For hard-pressed, taxpaying citizens who believe in limited government, April is not a favorite month. But something really good and worth noting happened a couple days before our taxes were due this year. On April 13 in Michigan, a Democratic governor chided a Republican legislature for trying to create a state “manufacturing czar.” In fact, [...]
1Oct2004 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedThe WHO Global Treaty on Tobacco: A Smokescreen for More Government Control
On May 10 the U.S. government signed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) global treaty on tobacco control. While the treaty still has to be ratified by the Senate before it becomes the law of the land, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson declared at the signing: “President Bush and I look forward to [...]
1Jul2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedLet Us Not Speak Falsely Now
One of the most difficult issues facing those arguing for a free society is the bias built into the way we speak. When the very words people use create a prejudice in favor of government intervention, supporters of freedom must first alert their audience to this pernicious influence, and only then can the argument about [...]
1Mar2004 | and Gene Callahan | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2003
Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans by Charlotte Twight St. Martin’s Press/Palgrave • 2002 • 512 pages • $26.95 hardcover; $17.95 paperback Reviewed by James Bovard Charlotte Twight has written an excellent book to help Americans understand how the federal government is insidiously seizing control of their lives, year by year, edict [...]
1Jun2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedNazi Tactics
Prior to the 1930s, Germany was Europe’s most hospitable country for Jews. While Jews were only 1 percent of the population, they were oneourth of Germany’s law and medical students. In some German cities, Jews were the majority of doctors. While Jews were only 5 percent of the Berlin population in 1905, they paid 31 [...]
30Jan2003 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedIt’s Getting Better All the Time: 100 Greatest Trends in the Last 100 Years
It’s not for nothing that economics is tagged “the dismal science.” Part of that reputation traces to its realistic no-pie-in-the-sky nature, but another part goes to the ongoing influence of thinkers like Thomas Malthus, who saw population outracing food output; Karl Marx, who saw evil capital crushing the rising working class; and John Maynard Keynes, [...]
1Jan2002 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedPeanut Butter, Education, and Markets
Darcy Olsen is director of education and child policy at the Cato Institute. Have you ever thought of petitioning Congress about the quality or quantity of the peanut butter you eat? Have you ever thought of creating a reform movement around peanut butter? Or have you ever wondered why there isn’t a federal department of [...]
1Nov2000 | Darcy Ann Olsen | 0 comments | ContinuedCode and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Lawrence Lessig has written an important but deeply flawed book on the future of the Internet. The book is important because of who Lessig is (Harvard law professor, celebrated member of the “digiterati,” and adviser to U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson) and because of the insights into the Internet that Lessig offers. The book [...]
1Aug2000 | Andrew P. Morriss | 0 comments | ContinuedRegulatory 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 | ContinuedMafia Capitalism or Red Legacy?
Gary Dempsey is a foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Aaron Lukas is an analyst at Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies. Russia is experiencing an organized crime epidemic. Its interior ministry says there are now more than 9,000 criminal organizations operating inside the country, employing nearly 100,000 people, or about [...]
1Aug1998 | and Gary Dempsey | 0 comments | ContinuedEducation and the Free Society
Dr. Roche is president of Hillsdale College and author of 12 books. His latest book is The Fall of the Ivory Tower: Government Funding, Corruption, and the Bankrupting of American Higher Education (Regnery Publishing, 1994). From 1966 to 1971, he was director of seminars at the Foundation for Economic Education. From 1971 to 1990, he [...]
1May1996 | George Roche | 1 comment | ContinuedProsperity Without Pollution
Mr. Semmens is an economist with Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. I recently had the opportunity to participate in a World Future Society “debate” on whether we could reduce pollution without also reducing our economic well-being. Mainstream thinking asserts that we must sacrifice at least some of our prosperity in order to protect the environment. [...]
1Mar1996 | John Semmens | 2 comments | ContinuedA Free Market
Admiral Moreell is Chairman of the Board of Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. What is meant by “the free market”? To answer this question we have to go back a step or two. Economics deals with desired goods in short supply. Air is not generally an economic good because there is enough for everyone and [...]
1Jun1956 | Ben Moreell | 0 comments | Continued-
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