All Posts Tagged With: "industrialization"
Tariffs and Freedom
A historical episode that opponents of consumer sovereignty—that is, opponents of free trade—frequently cite to support their case for high tariffs is late nineteenth-century America. Pat Buchanan, for example, in his book The Great Betrayal asserts about the 1800s that “Behind a tariff wall . . . the United States had gone from an agrarian [...]
22Dec2010 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 19 comments | ContinuedChina’s Forgotten Industrial Revolution
We live in a world that has been shaped by a process that began some 250 years ago in northwestern Europe. We often call it the Industrial Revolution because one of its most dramatic features was the appearance of industrial manufacture with the rise of the factory system. However, this was only one element and [...]
1Jun2003 | Stephen Davies | 0 comments | ContinuedEducational Savior?
Daniel Hager is a freelance writer in Lansing, Michigan. George S. Counts is not a widely recognized figure in twentieth-century American education, but he was extremely influential. Twenty-five years after his death, the damage caused by this one-time president of the American Federation of Teachers lives on. The first step in counteracting his effects is [...]
1Jun1999 | Daniel Hager | 1 comment | ContinuedMises on Mexico
Eduardo Turrent is the historian of the Bank of Mexico. This article is excerpted from a paper delivered at a conference of the Ludwig von Mises Cultural Institute of Mexico City, September 23–24, 1998, celebrating the publication in Spanish of Ludwig von Mises’s Mexico’s Economic Problems: Yesterday and Today, which was written in 1943 but [...]
1Mar1999 | Eduardo Turrent | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Origins of the Public School
Hardly anyone disputes the contention that the modem public school is seriously flawed. Test scores continue to be poor while metal detectors are found in the more violent schools. Welfare-state liberals argue that schools in poor areas need more money to place them on an equal footing with their richer counterparts. Conservatives usually reply that [...]
1Jul1998 | Robert P. Murphy | 6 comments | ContinuedTechnology and the Work Force: Work Will Not End
Mr. Jonas is the Herman Kahn Fellow at the Hudson Institute, in Indianapolis, Indiana. In his recent provocative book The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin joins a growing chorus of social pessimists who argue that advanced technology leads to a concentration of wealth in the hands of “the elites” followed by wholesale unemployment for the [...]
1Nov1997 | Donald K. Jonas | 0 comments | ContinuedFacts about The Industrial Revolution
Dr. Mises is Visiting Professor of Economics at New York University. An examination of the so-called horrors of the “Industrial Revolution” and the persistent myth that industrial progress is a plot against employees. Socialist and interventionist authors assert that the history of modern industrialism and especially the history of the British “Industrial Revolution” provide an [...]
1Feb1956 | Ludwig von Mises | 4 comments | Continued-
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