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Keynes’s Ghost
The multiplier argument is founded on two key assumptions that turn out to be false. First is the notion that savings are not spent but rather are withdrawn from the expenditure stream. The multiplier’s second incorrect premise is that government expenditures are “autonomous”; that is, government spending does not depend on current income.
9Jun2009 | James C. W. Ahiakpor | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Real Argument about Government
A lot of contemporary political debate centers on how big government should be. The debate tends to have two main features.
First, it uses measures such as government spending as a proportion of GDP or the share of total income taken in taxation. Figures such as these show a dramatic rise in the size of government [...]
As Frank Chodorov Sees It
John Stuart Mill, says Professor Russell Kirk in a recent article in the conservative National Review, is “dated.” He was referring to the famous treatise On Liberty. The occasion for this dictum is the revival of interest in the treatise, by way of a couple of re-publications and the consequent appearance of critical articles.
When [...]
On Liberty
Man’s right to think and act for himself is more in jeopardy today than in 1859, when Mill published the famed essay from which these paragraphs are selected.*
* The Regnery paperbacked edition of Mill’s On Liberty is available through the Foundation. 148 pp. 85 cents.
As the tendency of all the changes taking place in [...]
21Nov2009 | John Stuart Mill | 0 comments | Continued-
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
