All Posts Tagged With: "military spending"
Can America Afford an Empire?
The fiscal question is whether, in the face of the huge national debt and multiyear trillion-dollar budget deficits, we can afford a “defense” establishment more befitting an empire than a republic.
9Jul2010 | Sheldon Richman | 12 comments | ContinuedCommerce, Markets, and Peace: Richard Cobden’s Enduring Lessons
Edward Stringham is a visiting associate professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. A longer version of this article won second prize (faculty division) in the 2003 Olive W. Garvey Fellowship Program for the Independent Institute and is reprinted in Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism, edited by Robert Higgs and [...]
1Oct2008 | Edward P. Stringham | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – November 2007
- Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
by Robert Gellately Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Depression, War, and Cold War
by Robert Higgs Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr.
- Great Philanthropic Mistakes
by Timothy Sandefur Reviewed by George C. Leef - Elements of Justice
by David Schmidtz Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
Energy Policy: Wisdom or Waste?
Roger McKinney (rdmckinney@cox.net) is senior analyst for a quasigovernmental health-care agency in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We can’t help ourselves. Americans crave the black gold that pulses through the concrete arteries of our nation’s transportation system. In the opinion of many, we have hocked our future for a cheap fix with a drug that abandons our nation [...]
1May2007 | Roger McKinney | 5 comments | ContinuedNever Enough?
President Bush’s proposed $48 billion military spending increase for next year exceeds what any other nation devotes to the military. In five years the Bush administration would have the government spend $100 billion more annually than was proposed by the Clinton administration. But for some people, no amount will ever be enough. “Neither the administration [...]
1Sep2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedWinners and Losers in the Transfer Game
I like lists, be they David Letterman’s Top Ten lists, the mainstream historians’ best-presidents lists, or my wife’s honey-do lists. They tell us much about the kind of society in which we live. Frequently, these lists reveal more about whoever compiled them than about whatever data is actually included on them. One list in particular [...]
1Sep2001 | Christopher Westley | 0 comments | ContinuedInscrutable Follies
“Don’t bother to examine a folly—ask yourself what it accomplishes.” —Ayn Rand, The FountainheadPardon if I sound like a character out of Dostoyevsky, but is it a sign I am mad when I am unable to understand what should be a simple newspaper article about taxing and spending in Washington? A New York Times article [...]
1Apr1999 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedService Muddles in Washington
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. For presidents and generals, the Cold War made military policy easy. The U.S. armed forces had to contain the Soviet Union; everything [...]
1Dec1998 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedGlobal Interventionism and the Erosion of Domestic Liberty
Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. “Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provision against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.” —James Madison to Thomas Jefferson May 13, 1798 There is a tendency of [...]
1Nov1997 | Ted Galen Carpenter | 0 comments | Continued-
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