All Posts Tagged With: "Mark Skousen"
Capital 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?) To [...]
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 [...]
Economic 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. My [...]
Capital 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” as well [...]
Capital 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 lifetime NRA [...]
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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
