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Forked-Tongued Washington Government
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies and still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the Department of Justice. The Act contains two important provisions. Section 1 outlaws contracts and conspiracies in restraint of trade. Section 2 prohibits monopolization and attempts to monopolize. Most [...]
24Aug2011 | Walter E. Williams | 3 comments | ContinuedGovernment and Conflict
Human differences such as race, ethnicity, religion, and language have always been sources of conflict. Despite arguments to minimize the importance of these differences, people still exhibit preferences in these areas when choosing a spouse, friend, business partner, employee, neighborhood, and other associations. People do not associate randomly. Efforts to deny such assortative behavior in [...]
22Dec2010 | Walter E. Williams | 4 comments | ContinuedIs Monopoly Good or Bad?
Monopoly is nearly always seen as something undesirable. Courts have wrestled with monopoly for ages, sometimes defining it as “the power to control prices and exclude competition,” “restraining trade,” or “unfair and anticompetitive behavior.” Should monopolistic practices be condemned and outlawed? Let’s look at anticompetitive behavior and practices, but let’s not confine ourselves to what’s [...]
30Jun2010 | Walter E. Williams | 2 comments | ContinuedThe War Between the State and the Family: How Government Divides and Impoverishes
Sympathy and compassion help make humans caring, moral beings. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, understood that, as illustrated by his emphasis on sympathy in The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Often, however, sympathy and compassion are transformed from tools of moral judgment and action into weapons of blind ideology, irrational emotionalism, and cynical politics. [...]
22Jan2009 | Raymond J. Keating | 3 comments | ContinuedCapitalism and the Family
It is hard to think of a human social institution that has undergone more change in less time than has the family in the last several decades. Although the magnitude and rapidity of those changes are exaggerated by the unusual stability in the family from just after World War II until the mid-1960s, the 40 [...]
1Jul2007 | Steven Horwitz | 8 comments | ContinuedNickel and Damned: Barbara Ehrenreich’s View of America
When Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America came out last year, I knew it would be the perfect foil to another book I used in my classes, The Millionaire Next Door, by Thomas Stanley and William Danko (1996). Don’t ever say that academics don’t have a sense of humor. [...]
1Jul2002 | Larry Schweikart | 1 comment | ContinuedPoliticizing the Housewife
What it means to be a housewife is being revised ideologically in order to impugn the choice some mothers make to stay at home. The revisionism has been fueled by the recent case of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five young children in a bathtub. The murders were allegedly committed because Yates [...]
1Nov2001 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedHow the Theory of Comparative Advantage Saved My Marriage
Ted Roberts is a freelance writer in Huntsville, Alabama, who often writes on public-policy issues. My neighbor is a kindly man with the pink and white complexion of a healthy turnip—and the generosity of a squash plant in dark loam. He has two green thumbs and big hands with long fingers obviously designed to pluck [...]
1Nov2000 | Ted Roberts | 0 comments | ContinuedMarriages, Mistresses, and Marginalism
Distinguishing between marginal and total values is crucial to understanding many human activities and decisions. Almost all the decisions we make are made at the margin, but there are exceptions. We are sometimes faced with decisions that force us to compare the total value of one option to the marginal value of another.
1Aug2000 | Dwight R. Lee | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Love of Economics
I attended a lecture recently on romantic relationships, and some in the audience became agitated when the speaker invoked economics in his analysis. Beyond the obvious financial issues, many people just did not understand what economics has to do with dating and marriage. This points to an unfortunate feature of many people’s understanding of economics. [...]
1Oct1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Life of a Grand Old Liberal
Moses Harman (1830–1910) is the sort of social visionary whom historians often overlook, even though his influence during his own lifetime was immense. Harman lived most of his life in the American midwest, sharing many of the values that are associated with the region: he was a soft-spoken, hard-working, and devoted family man with an [...]
1Feb1999 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedMary Wollstonecraft–Equal Rights for Women
In Western Europe during the late eighteenth century, single women had little protection under the law, and married women lost their legal identity. Women couldn’t retain a lawyer, sign a contract, inherit property, vote, or have rights over their children. As Oxford law professor William Blackstone noted in his influential Commentaries on the Laws of [...]
1Apr1996 | Jim Powell | 4 comments | Continued-
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