All Posts Tagged With: "job creation"
Creating Jobs versus Creating Value
The next time anyone starts talking about job creation, stop listening. Jobs come into existence when entrepreneurs are free to create value.
2Feb2012 | Steven Horwitz | 26 comments | ContinuedTough on Immigration Is Tough on Economic Growth
Not to be outdone by Arizona’s tough immigration law of 2010, Alabama and Georgia legislators passed their own immigration bills in 2011. The bills received a great deal of media attention because they were widely touted as good for growth and job creation, and were harsher on illegal immigrants than Arizona’s law. In a New [...]
4Jan2012 | Scott Beaulier | 21 comments | ContinuedUnemployment: What Is It?
Unemployment has regained center stage now that the debt crisis has receded from that position, at least for a time. Unless things change dramatically over the next year unemployment will be the number one issue in the forthcoming presidential election. Hardly any proposal will escape being labeled “job-killing” or “job-creating” or both. To begin with [...]
26Oct2011 | Warren C. Gibson | 2 comments | ContinuedProgressive Intolerance
Television pundits increasingly express an attitude that is at once arrogant and ignorant: The people who oppose Keynesian economics—specifically an increase in government deficit spending to create jobs and jumpstart the economy—are the same kind of people who also believe that the earth is only several thousand years old (rather than 4.5 billion), that evolution [...]
26Oct2011 | Sheldon Richman | 7 comments | ContinuedMore Government Action Needed for Job Recovery?
Would it come as a shock to hear one of the best-known apologists for government intervention in the economy admitting that it hasn’t worked (so far)? This is exactly what Nobel Prize-winning economist and uber-Keynesian Paul Krugman does in a New York Times column, stating, “[W]e are not now and have never been on the [...]
26Oct2011 | Tyler Watts | 1 comment | ContinuedPrivate Investment and Public “Investment”
Politicians are fond of telling the public that we must “invest” in this program or that—be it education; health care; make-work infrastructure projects like the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere”; $50 million for an indoor rainforest in Iowa; $3.4 million for a tunnel to allow turtles to cross under a highway in Florida; $1.8 million for swine [...]
22Jun2011 | Adam B. Summers | 1 comment | ContinuedBusiness to Be Asked for Jobs Ideas
“President Obama will challenge business and labor leaders today to generate ideas for creating jobs, sustaining the economic recovery and making America more competitive.” (USA Today) Who will say, like those French businessmen long ago, “Laissez faire, laissez passer!”? FEE Timely Classic “Laissez Faire as a Development Policy” by John Semmens
24Feb2011 | Foundation for Economic Education | 2 comments | ContinuedWar Would End the Recession?
In his September 28 New York Times blog post, Paul Krugman announced that “economics is not a morality play.” That turn of phrase is his way of defending the idea that in unusual times, such as the sort of deep recession we are in, we can get strange relationships between economic cause and effect. The result [...]
22Dec2010 | Steven Horwitz | 41 comments | ContinuedFor the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s
The latest New Deal synthesis is For the Survival of Democracy by veteran historian Alonzo Hamby of Ohio University. What makes Hamby’s research design different is that he describes the development of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal in an international context. Specifically, he weaves the American narrative with events in Britain and Germany in [...]
8Jul2010 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedProducing Jobs: Thoughts on Obama’s Plan for Small Businesses
The ears of small business America must have perked up when President Obama spoke about that critically important sector in his State of the Union address. Mine certainly did. Here’s when it really got interesting: “I’m . . . proposing a new small business tax credit—one that will go to over one million small businesses [...]
20May2010 | Bruce Yandle | 2 comments | ContinuedWhy Did the “Stimulus” Fail to Help the Economy?
Attempts to “stimulate” the economy through massive government spending may put money into the pockets of politically connected people, but it does nothing to restore the economic factors to their proper balances.
20Jan2010 | William L. Anderson | 28 comments | ContinuedAbout Those Tax Breaks
Few things bug free-market economists as much as the attempts by local and state authorities to give tax breaks to certain firms in the name of “creating jobs.”
6Jan2010 | William L. Anderson | 3 comments | ContinuedJob Growth to Return in Spring, Geitner Says
“Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he believes it’s reasonable to expect “positive job growth” by spring and that people should have confidence about an improving economic climate.” (AP, Wednesday) Just in time for Congress to kill it with a round of tax increases. FEE Timely Classic: “Why Government Can’t Create Jobs” by Mark Ahlseen
23Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedNew “Jobs” Initiative on the Way
“President Barack Obama is promoting help for highways and small businesses, bridges and energy-efficient homes in a broad pitch to get Americans back to work and roll back the double-digit unemployment that’s approaching a quarter-century high, an administration official said Tuesday.” (Washington Times, Tuesday) Stimulus II: Don’t Call it a Comeback FEE Timely Classic: “Public [...]
8Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat Is Seen and What Is Unseen: Government “Job Creation”
How can Obama and his economic advisers know what kinds of jobs will position our economy to “lead the world” in the long term? Indeed, how can we expect anyone to know what kinds of jobs will be able to offer such a guarantee of wealth and security, considering the enormous complexity of our world?
10Jun2009 | Larissa Price | 32 comments | ContinuedThe Disconnect Between Political Promises and Performance
What can politicians do to create more higher paying jobs? Politicians must think that most of us believe the answer is: a lot. One of the most persistent campaign promises is the creation of good jobs at good wages. I shall argue that politicians can do quite a number of things to increase high-wage employment. [...]
1Apr2006 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedHave a Canadian Orange
Suppose gasoline became so expensive that getting oranges to Wisconsin raised their price to $3 each. If that price were expected to persist for a long time, there would probably arise a Wisconsin citrus industry with all the trimmings. Orange orchards would be planted near the Illinois border where the weather is warmest.
1May2004 | Russell Roberts | 1 comment | Continued-
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