All Posts Tagged With: "interest groups"

Bootleggers, Baptists, and Bailed-Out Bankers

For more than a year now, people worldwide have experienced an extraordinary chain of economic events. Led by crushing increases in U.S. mortgage-related bankruptcies, the world financial collapse that followed has been termed the subprime crisis, the financial meltdown, the Wall Street bailout, the beginning of another Great Depression, and even the end of capitalism [...]

2Mar2009 | Bruce Yandle | 3 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – 2007/9

  • The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements

    by Lynne Viola Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • In our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
    by Charles Murray Reviewed by Michael Tanner
  • Actual Ethics
    by James R. Otteson Reviewed by Tibor Machan
  • Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
    by Paul Moreno Reviewed by George C. Leef
    • 1Sep2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

Legal Plunder Mislabeled “Defense”

Arnaud de Borchgrave of United Press Interna­tional has been reporting on national intelli­gence matters for many years. In a recent dispatch he wrote that “[s]ome 15,300 earmarks in the U.S. defense budget, up 1,300 percent in the 21st centu­ry, are so many pork projects for lawmakers’ constituen­cies that have nothing to do with defense.” That [...]

1May2006 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Japan, Germany, and the End of the Third Way

Norman Barry is a professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham, UK, the country’s only private university.
Last year’s election results in Japan and Germany are not only important for those countries but also have wider lessons, for they herald a decisive defeat for a once-fashionable doctrine—the Third Way. This was adopted [...]

1May2006 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | Continued