All Posts Tagged With: "John Chamberlain"
The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty
Henry Hazlitt (18941993), on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, most deservedly was designated journalist of the century. He also was the last survivor of the founding trustees of the Foundation for Economic Education.
1Jan2006 | Paul L. Poirot | 1 comment | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
Is there actually any such thing as a science of economics? Sidney Schoeffler, in a remarkably stimulating book called The Failures of Economics (Harvard University Press, $4.75), goes pretty far toward saying that the subject just doesn’t exist in any scientific sense of the word.This does not mean that he considers economists to be superfluous. [...]
1Sep1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
The late Charles A. Beard was a complex and often contradictory character. While he did not invent the “economic interpretation” of history, he gave it its first great impetus in America by writing his An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. That was back in 1913, the lyric year when social change [...]
1Aug1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
“Straight thinking,” says George Leland Bach in his Economics: An Introduction to Analysis and Policy (New York: Prentice-Hall. 720 pp. $6.50), “is hard work.” And he continues, “Straight thinking in economics is especially hard.” Since Professor Bach, a most undogmatic man, writes for thousands of students, his opinion about thinking is especially important. But even [...]
1Jul1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
I have just been reading a number of college textbooks on economics. They contain the standard chapters on monopoly, oligopoly, “monopolistic competition,” “imperfect competition,” “workable competition,” and “administered” prices. And they flash the usual warning signals: let the customer beware of price gouging, of submitting docilely to “all the traffic will bear.” This sort of [...]
1Jun1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
The late Russell Davenport was an exciting personality. His The Dignity of Man (New York: Harper. 338 pp. $4.00) asks all the right questions even when it fumbles in darkness for the answers. An individualist, Davenport went against the grain of his times from his college days to the very hour of his all-too-early death. [...]
1May1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedA Reviewers Notebook
In their Monopoly in America: The Government as Promoter (New York: Macmillan. 221 pp. $3.50), Walter Adams and Horace M. Gray have hit upon a profound truth—that it is the State itself which establishes and fosters the conditions making for monopoly. Unfortunately these two crusading professors—Dr. Adams teaches economics at Michigan State University while Dr. [...]
1Apr1956 | John Chamberlain | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Forgotten Man
Mr. Chamberlain, the well-known literary critic, is also an associate editor of Barron’s. He’s the one from whom the money is taken to subsidize the others A nation begins to decline when it neglects its own classics. But no trend is necessarily permanent, and classics can come back. Take the case of William Graham Sumner’s [...]
1Sep1955 | John Chamberlain | 4 comments | Continued-
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