All Posts Tagged With: "Kevin Carson"
The Modern Union versus Workers’ Rights
The raging controversy in Wisconsin over eliminating collective bargaining “rights” for government employees cast a bright and harsh light on public-sector unions. Some commentators have distinguished public-sector unions from private-sector unions, but the vested interests of the two are much the same. Both are expressions of what might be called “the modern union,” which came [...]
22Jun2011 | Wendy McElroy | 4 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
“Economic Freedom of the World” Doesn’t Endorse Free Trade Agreements As two of the principal authors of the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index published by the Fraser Institute, we might be accused of being overly defensive when it comes to criticisms of such indexes. For this reason, we typically choose to remain silent [...]
21Apr2011 | Foundation for Economic Education | 1 comment | ContinuedWinner of Beth A. Hoffman Prize for Economic Writing Named
The first annual Beth A. Hoffman Memorial Prize for Economic Writing has been awarded to Kevin A. Carson, the Foundation for Economic Education announced. Through the generosity of a FEE donor, the prize has been established to honor the memory of Beth A. Hoffman by recognizing the best article on economics or economic history published [...]
12Jan2011 | Foundation for Economic Education | 2 comments | ContinuedWhat Our Welfare State Really Is
Freeman contributor Kevin Carson has an excellent, and remarkably brief, analysis of America’s welfare state: “Giving Back With a Spoon, Taking With a Shovel.” Choice quote: In most avowedly “free market” discourse on the right, the main direction of government activity is framed as a war on the “productive” rich in favor of politically organized, [...]
4Oct2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedFrustrating Michael Moore
If Michael Moore would study a little political economy he might turn into a potent champion of individual liberty. As we see in Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore is offended by some truly offensive things: banks engaging in wild speculation without concern for the risk, taxpayer bailouts for banks and other businesses, [...]
1Jan2010 | Sheldon Richman | 6 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
What Do We Do About the Subsidy of History? I concurred on one point with “The Subsidy of History” by Kevin Carson (June 2008). It is not sound to view the historical development of capitalism as though it evolved strictly by fairness, without including the vices of mankind. Surely history is better stated by Burton [...]
1Nov2008 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedCapital Letters
Are Corporations Islands of “Calculational Chaos”? According to Kevin Carson (“Hierarchy or the Market,” The Freeman, April 2008), a private business corporation is in effect “an island of calculational chaos in the market economy.” . . . Carson writes, “Those at the top make decisions concerning a production process about which they likely know as [...]
1Sep2008 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | Continued-
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