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The American Land Question
Widespread landownership long supported a kind of liberal-republican independence. Perhaps we should reexamine the nexus and ask ourselves how, in Donald Davidson’s words, we “let the freehold pass,” and whether that was really for the best.
10Jun2009 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 6 comments | ContinuedThe Freedom to Move
The freedom of the individual to move toward greener pastures, wherever they may seem to be, has been a vital part of the freedom of commerce—the freedom of choice that has constituted the truly distinctive characteristic of “the American way.”
In view of our long experience of near-perfect freedom to move about as each might choose, [...]
Decency Requires a Minimum-Wage Law? It Just Ain’t So!
The libertarian cliché that “at least the Republicans are right on economic policies” suffered another setback on the August 11, 2003, Los Angeles Times op-ed page, where Republican Douglas MacKinnon argues that anyone who cares about the poor should be ashamed of the failure of the Senate to raise the minimum wage. His essay is [...]
1Mar2004 | Aeon J. Skoble | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Birth of a Capitalist
The late Dean Russell was a long-time member of FEE’s staff and the author of Frédéric Bastiat: Ideas and Influence, The TVA Idea, and The Conscription Idea. This article is reprinted from the September 1955 issue of Ideas on Liberty.
When the new superintendent came to the orphanage where I was reared, he found that we [...]
Of Human Hypocrisy
A scene in W. Somerset Maugham’s beautiful novel Of Human Bondage captures the hypocrisy and pretense of much of what passes today for enlightened thought. Philip Carey, the novel’s protagonist, invites a dying friend, Cronshaw, to spend his final days at his small apartment. Cronshaw is a penniless poet. Leonard Upjohn is a self-satisfied writer [...]
1Jun2003 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedTrade Union Crisis
Mr. Brogan is a British journalist, author, and advocate of competitive private enterprise. Years of easy credit, malinvestment, union domination, and other aspects of political intervention lead to a day of reckoning for Britain’s auto industry. Ever since the end of the War it has been the proudest boast of British politicians that [...]
21Nov2009 | Colin Brogan | 0 comments | ContinuedLabors True Magna Charta
Labor is a commodity whether exchanged directly or indirectly—directly as a service or indirectly as the bag of wheat produced by one’s labor.
Since the beginning of 1933 more than 630 million man-days of work have been lost as a direct result of work stoppages, with no account taken of the secondary idleness caused by [...]
Economic Ends and Means
“It is common to see good intentions, if they are carried out without moderation, push man into very vicious results.”
—Montaigne
In the current debate over federal farm policy, those who express concern at the government’s mountainous holdings of surplus agricultural products are accused of lacking sympathy with the plight of the farmer. When the full-employment [...]
The Essence Of Capitalism
Mr. Buck is statistician of The Toronto Dominion Bank.
One of the inescapable facts of human life is that we must choose among alternatives. That fact furnishes us the clue to economic science.
It is as simple as this. Two years ago, I wanted to hear a recital by Anna Russell and an address by [...]
Legislated Security Is Bondage
Excerpts from an address, December 5, 1916,
The “grand old man” of labor—president of the AFL, 1886-1924—warned his union members to look behind the humanitarian slogans used by the advocates of government-guaranteed security
There has never yet come down from any government any substantial improvement in the conditions of the masses of the people, unless it [...]
The Farm Problem
This article, under the title “The Wrong Track?” was first printed in The Prairie Farmer, February 19, 1955,
A County Agent fears that the farmers’ acceptance of subsidies will be used by government as proof that it has thereby acquired the right to control their lands
Washington is again ringing with debate about the farm program and [...]
More Machines Mean More Jobs
Nearly three centuries ago, an inventor in Danzig built a loom that could weave six webs at once, and the authorities promptly suppressed it in order to protect the poor. But the “poor” were not appeased. They wanted no more such machines. So they seized the hapless inventor and drowned him in a nearby creek. [...]
21Nov2009 | Benjamin F. Fairless | 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
