All Posts Tagged With: "Henry Aaron"

Ideological and Political Underpinnings of the Great Society

The surge of federal economic interventions that occurred during Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency—the much-ballyhooed Great Society, whose centerpiece was the War on Poverty—differed from the four preceding surges, each of which had been sparked by war or economic depression. No national emergency prevailed when Johnson took office following John F. Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, [...]

24Feb2011 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | Continued

We Need Medical Rationing?

In a recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times (“A Health Care Prescription that’s Hard to Swallow,” January 30, 2006), Henry Aaron, a well-known health econ­omist at the Brookings Institution, made the following argument: Spending on health care in the United States is rising as a percent of GDP and could go from its current [...]

1May2006 | David R. Henderson | 0 comments | Continued

Medical Technology and the State

So-called public-policy experts often take the many advances in modern technology for granted. They assume that government regulations and controls merely redistribute the fruits of progress without affecting the nature and extent of technological development itself. But that is wrong. Whenever the government involves itself in the financing and distribution of goods and services, the [...]

1May2002 | Gary M. Pecquet | 1 comment | Continued

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