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Book Reviews – December 2008
Is the Welfare State Justified?
by Daniel Shapiro
Cambridge University Press • 2007 • 309 pages • $80.00 hardcover; $27.99 paperback
Reviewed by George C. Leef
Americans have lived with the welfare state for so long—more than 70 years—that for most, it is simply a fact of life. Asking whether it is justified would seem about as pointless as [...]
A Sennholz Sampler
Editor’s Note: Hans Sennholz, a former president and trustee of FEE and long-time chairman of the economics department at Grove City College, died in June at age 85. We honor his memory with three of the many articles he contributed over the years.
“Jobs and Trade,” July 1996
Unemployment is the great puzzle of our time. It [...]
What Friends of Freedom Can Learn From The Socialists
On March 14, 1883, a German philosopher living in exile in London passed away. When he was buried three days later in a modest grave where his wife had been laid to rest two years earlier, fewer than ten people were present, half of them family members. His closest friend spoke at the gravesite and [...]
1Oct2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedA Museum You Don’t Want to Miss
More than 150 years ago Karl Marx predicted that communism was inevitable. History, he claimed, was marching inexorably toward a communist paradise. In hindsight it would appear that if anything about communism was inevitable, it was that it would sooner or later be relegated to the status of museum relic. In the capital city of a formerly communist country in eastern Europe, that’s exactly what has happened.
1Mar2004 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedMedical Technology and the State
So-called public-policy experts often take the many advances in modern technology for granted. They assume that government regulations and controls merely redistribute the fruits of progress without affecting the nature and extent of technological development itself.
But that is wrong. Whenever the government involves itself in the financing and distribution of goods and services, the production [...]
National Gun Registration: The Road to Tyranny
Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D., is the editor-in-chief of Medical Sentinel, the journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform (1995) and Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine (Hacienda Publishing Inc., 1997, www.haciendapub.com).
Georg Hegel (1770-1831), the [...]
Economics, Inter Alia
Dr. Poirot is a member of the staff of the Foundation [or Economic Education.
Inter Alia is a Latin phrase meaning “among other things,’” and that is precisely the place to look for the economic policies of the United Nations. Article 55 of the Charter authorizes the United Nations to promote, inter alia, “higher standards [...]
Religion In American Life
A layman re-examines and appraises the meaning of two vital facets of the traditional American way of life
Since our subject is religion and its place in American life, we must start with these questions: What is religion? What is American life? There are many concepts of each, with wide divergences of meaning and emphasis. [...]
Letters
Unquestionably, one of the most effective forms of communication is a thoughtful letter written to a person in answer to his own question.
The staff members of the Foundation for Economic Education write thousands of such letters each year. Some of these are, in effect, short articles on “general interest” subjects not fully covered in previous [...]
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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
