All Posts Tagged With: "Mark Skousen"
Vienna and Chicago: Friends or Foes? A Tale of Two Schools of Free-Market Economics
In the post-World War II era, two of the leading voices for a return to a competitive free-market economy have been the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics. Both schools have influenced many people about how markets work and how government affects economic affairs. To many, the Austrian and Chicago economists seem to be saying [...]
13Jul2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Is Greenspan Really Innocent of Causing the Housing Boom? David Henderson and Jeff Hummel have written a remarkably pro-Greenspan article, “Was Money Really Easy Under Greenspan?” (www.tinyurl.com/cuf3ug). The authors overlooked several points that would undermine their portrayal of Fed chairman Alan Greenspan as an anti-inflationist and the best Fed chairman ever. (Better than Paul Volcker?) [...]
21May2009 | mnolan | 0 comments | ContinuedBook 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 [...]
1Dec2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
The Roll of Toll Roads To the Editor: I liked Scott McPherson’s article ["Private Road to Freedom," April] but was somewhat surprised that he made no mention of the fact that private toll roads were all this country had when roads were first developed. It was only when local governments started to interfere by insisting [...]
1Aug2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
What Is “Mental Illness”? To the Editor: [The March column opposing insurance parity for psychiatric treatment by] Thomas Szasz . . . shocked and disappointed me. . . . Any close relative (myself included) of a person who was formerly seriously mentally ill—with all the unwanted auditory and visual cacophony—and was returned to normal rational [...]
1Jul2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Does the Electoral College Really Help Small States? To the Editor: While I do not favor eliminating the Electoral College per se, Lawrence Reed (“Ideas and Consequences,” March 2001) is incorrect in a major point—and it defines the need to modify the rules by which the College operates. Mr. Reed states, “[T]he fact that a [...]
1Jun2001 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedCapital Letters
Who’s an Imperialist? To the Editor: Mark Skousen’s “Imperial Science” (January 2001) dismissed the great impact of co-operative efforts between economists and researchers, scientists, and authors from other disciplines. In fact, such cooperative interdisciplinary work is now commonplace. Economists have at least as much to learn from, as they have to contribute to, other disciplines—a [...]
1May2001 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomic Logic by Mark Skousen
Capital Press • 2000 • 369 pages • $29.95 paperback Economic Logic is Mark Skousen’s new principles of economics text, which is intended to teach introductory economics in a consistent, integrative fashion. That is a worthy goal. I am not alone in being weary of the current texts that offer a buffet of economic theories. [...]
1Mar2001 | Paul A. Cleveland | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Selective Taxation Worse To the Editor: Lawrence Reed argues against taxation of Internet sales in his recent article “Don’t Tax the Internet” (June 2000). There is an evil worse than excessive taxation: that of selective taxation . . . . Exemption of Internet-originated sales from taxation, while still allowing taxation of phone-originated sales taxes, amounts [...]
1Oct2000 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Why Y2K? To the Editor: “Bill O. Reitz” overcomplicates the Y2K situation (“Why Y2K?;” December 1999). I spent over 20 years in the information-processing business from the late ‘60s until the early ‘90s, so I have some knowledge of the genesis and continuation of the so-called Y2K problem. I worked with “magnetic drum” and “core” [...]
1Mar2000 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Live by the Stats, Die by the Stats To the Editor: Regarding Mark Skousen’s column, “Chicago Gun Show,” in the October 1999 issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty the statistical arguments advanced by the Chicago school allegedly demonstrating gun ownership reduces violent crime are methodologically flawed. Though I am a proud gun owner and [...]
1Jan2000 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy Y2K?
Bill O. Reitz is a pen name for a West Coast electronics executive. We are fast approaching that fateful day, January 1, 2000. Whether the much-debated Y2K problem will come in with a bang or merely a whimper, only time will tell. But it is interesting to ask why we are in this situation today. [...]
1Dec1999 | Bill O. Reitz | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade, edited by Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
By the mid-1800s, socialists had initiated an attempt to show that the industrial revolution and concomitant rise of free trade had worsened the lives of British workers. Great Britain’s adoption of free trade internationally with the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 only made detractors more determined to show that a society built on [...]
1Apr1997 | Gene Smiley | 0 comments | ContinuedReviving a Civil Society
“Taxes,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “are what we pay for civilized society.” But as my fellow Freeman columnist Mark Skousen explained in his remarkable monograph “Persuasion vs. Force,” a much better case can be made that taxation is actually the price we pay for the lack of civilization. If people took better care of [...]
1Sep1996 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued-
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