All Posts Tagged With: "materialism"
Prosperity Is Hazardous to Our Health and Wealth?
The left long ago abandoned the argument that socialism would produce greater prosperity than capitalism (although Paul Samuelson still clung to this belief as late as 1988) and now devotes most of its energy to fabricating myriad “problems” with capitalist prosperity. A particularly shallow example of this argument was recently on display in a February [...]
1Jun2001 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 1 comment | ContinuedTo Be Is to Choose
Left and right critics of free markets sometime level the criticism that capitalism encourages crass consumerism and materialism. Stores and malls proliferate, offering round the clock a dizzying array of products that people did perfectly well without not so long ago. A well-known conservative journalist/political aspirant once said to me, “You’ve walked through the mall. [...]
1Apr2001 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedTechnology and Happiness
Allan Levite is a freelance writer residing in San Francisco, California. While surfing the Internet one day, I chanced upon an article by Jay Hanson, titled “The Woes of Modern Society.”[1] In most respects it was standard environmentalist fare, bemoaning modern technology and the harm it has allegedly done to the earth and to humanity. [...]
1Aug1998 | Allan Levite | 2 comments | ContinuedFoolish Inconsistencies
When a domestic steel producer solemnly croons for the television cameras about how high tariffs on imported steel are good for the American economy, you can be sure that he is not really interested in the well-being of his fellow citizens. He is undoubtedly a swindler motivated by no ideal more elevated than fattening his [...]
1Jun1998 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued-
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