All Posts Tagged With: "meatpacking industry"
“Big Meat” and Big Government
Ranchers are a fairly independent bunch. We don’t like overweening authority and prefer to fend for ourselves. We also find few things more objectionable than sitting endlessly indoors. Nevertheless, 2,000 of us did just that several months ago in the ballroom of Colorado State University. Our ballroom session wasn’t very romantic, I’m afraid. While most [...]
25May2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Unsustainable Politics of Natural Capitalism
Pierre Desrochers is research director at the Montreal Economic Institute (www.iedm.org). In their bestseller Natural Capitalism, a book so heartily praised by environmentalists and business executives that its American edition sold out before its publication date, authors Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins indict traditional capitalism as a “financially profitable” but “nonsustainable aberration [...]
1Jun2003 | Pierre Desrochers | 0 comments | ContinuedSweatshops: Look for the INS Label
The nineteenth-century phenomenon of sweatshops is re-emerging as an important 21st-century issue for American labor and business. For example, the United Students Against Sweatshops has called on its 180 campus affiliates to organize and force universities to deal only with manufacturers who abide by fair labor practices. In February, students from the University of Pennsylvania [...]
1Jul2000 | Wendy McElroy | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Attack on Concentration
This article is condensed from an address before the Ashland, Kentucky, Economic Club, September 15, 1978. (Editor’s Note: Yale Brozen, former member of FEE’s board of trustees and a retired professor of business economics at the University of Chicago, died March 4. Reprinted below as a memorial is his article published in The Freeman, January [...]
1Jun1998 | Yale Brozen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Attack on Concentration
Editor’s Note: Yale Brozen, former member of FEE’s board of trustees and a retired professor of business economics at the University of Chicago, died March 4. Reprinted below as a memorial is his article published in The Freeman, January 1979. It is especially timely because of the government’s current legal action against Microsoft. Once we [...]
1Jan1998 | Yale Brozen | 0 comments | Continued-
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