All Posts Tagged With: "military"
Commerce, 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 | ContinuedBlurring the Civilian-Military Line
Gene Healy is senior editor at the Cato Institute. The soldier’s mission, as soldiers often phrase it, is “killing people and breaking things,” and they’re trained accordingly. In contrast, police officers, ideally, are trained to operate in an environment where constitutional rights apply and to use force only as a last resort. Accordingly, Americans going [...]
1Feb2003 | Gene Healy | 3 comments | ContinuedAnother Place, Another War
Michael Palmer lives in Colorado. February 2, 1969: I step off the back of a CH-34, a helicopter that looks like a flying apartment building complete with side-mounted machine guns. It is so muggy you can’t catch your breath. I’m at Camp Eagle, just north of Hue, South Vietnam. It’s the year after the Tet [...]
1Jul1999 | Michael Palmer | 0 comments | ContinuedOutside the Limits
“Slobodan Milosevic is hideous. If tomorrow he is run over by a beer truck the world will be a better place.” That was my response to the bright woman who was simultaneously cutting my hair and seeking my opinion of U.S. military involvement in Kosovo. “So you agree that NATO’s bombing mission is justified?” she [...]
1Jun1999 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 1 comment | ContinuedRoads Without the State
Peter Samuel is editor and publisher of Toll Roads, a monthly newletter. Can there be roads if the government doesn’t build them? The first roads were probably not even made by humans but by animals. Herds of buffalo, deer, and other grass foragers pushed aside the shrubs and trampled down the grass to make tracks [...]
1Jan1998 | Peter Samuel | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Economics Of War
Dr. Mises is Visiting Professor of Economies at New York University. This is abridged From a chapter of his book, Human Action (Yale University Press, 1949. 881 pages, $10.00). The market economy involves peaceful cooperation. It bursts asunder when the citizens turn into warriors and, instead of exchanging commodities and services, fight one another. The [...]
1Nov1955 | Ludwig von Mises | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Conscription Idea
Dean Russell is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. “The principle of voluntarism should not be compromised.” That policy on civilian manpower was recommended to the National Security Council in a May, 1954, report from the Office of Defense Mobilization. The report suggests an extensive program of voluntary incentives as [...]
1May1955 | Dean Russell | 1 comment | Continued-
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