All Posts Tagged With: "John D. Rockefeller"
Equality, Markets, and Morality
Burton Folsom, Jr. is a professor of history at Hillsdale College and author of New Deal or Raw Deal?, to be published by Simon & Schuster this year. The subject of “equality” is the source of much political debate. Ever since the founding era, free-market thinkers have argued for equality of opportunity in the economic [...]
1Sep2008 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 5 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – January 2008
- The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
by David Gratzer Reviewed by Jane M. Orient
- Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
Edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas F. Flanagan Reviewed by William L. Anderson, Jr.
- The Wal-Mart Revolution
by Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox Reviewed by George Leef - On the Wealth of Nations
by P.J. O’Rourke Reviewed by Raymond J. Keating
Dangerous Donations
lf government didn’t build and support schools, almost everyone would be ignorant—right? Believers in liberty often have to argue against that canard. Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930, by historians Eric Anderson and Alfred Moss, shows the remarkable extent to which northern citizens voluntarily supported the education of southern blacks when government [...]
1Jun2000 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Great Philanthropists and the Problem of “Donor Intent”
According to a book titled The Right Guide and its companion volume, The Left Guide, funding for the various organizations that promote the expansion of government is between three and four times as great as the funding for the organizations that seek to protect freedom, private property, and limited government. The principal reason for this [...]
1Oct1999 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedIt Just Ain’t So!
The government’s harassment of Microsoft has uncorked a gusher of silly journalism. On May 19, even the Wall Street Journal joined the flow. Alan Murray’s front-page essay, “Reading Rockefeller and Busting Up Trusts,” is a soup of errors and strained logic. Murray is horrified by accounts of Standard Oil’s large size and Rockefeller’s “obsession for [...]
1Sep1998 | and Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Ghost of John D. Rockefeller
At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on competitiveness in the computer industry last March, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was compared to the infamous “robber baron” John D. Rockefeller and his company likened to the Standard Oil Company of the late nineteenth century. Federal Trade Commission chairman Robert Pitofsky made a similar analogy in a Washington [...]
1Jun1998 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Predatory Bogeyman
In the literature of anti-capitalism, the dominant bogeyman is unquestionably the big, private, profit-seeking company. Is there a sin imaginable that hasn’t been laid at the doorstep of those who own or manage large firms? Defenders of capitalism have produced powerful arguments and voluminous evidence exposing much of the anti-capitalist literature as mythology—attacks that seem [...]
1Jul1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | Continued-
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