All Posts Tagged With: "Nanny State"

Raw Milk and the Sour State

Whether it is an expensive organic brand or simply carries a mega-chain store name, that milk has undergone pasteurization and homogenization. There is a growing subset of consumers who would prefer not to buy their milk this way. They want it unpasteurized, unhomogenized—in a word, “raw.”

20Jan2009 | William E. Pike | 6 comments | Continued

Legalize All Drugs

Reading the New York Post’s popular Page Six gossip page recently, I was surprised to find a picture of me, followed by the lines: “ABC’S John Stossel wants the government to stop interfering with your right to get high. The crowd went silent at his call to legalize hard drugs.”
I had attended a Marijuana Policy [...]

1Oct2008 | John Stossel | 1 comment | Continued

Book Reviews – July 2008

  • A Farewell to Alms by Gregory Clark Reviewed by Gene Callahan
  • Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don’t by John Lott Reviewed by Robert P. Murphy
  • Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval that Inspired America’s Founding Fathers by Michael Barone Reviewed by Martin Morse Wooster
  • Nanny State: How Food Fascists, Teetotaling Do-Gooders, Priggish Moralists, and Other Boneheaded Bureaucrats Are Turning America Into a Nation of Children David Harsanyi Reviewed by George Leef
1Jul2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

Banning Payday Loans Deprives Low-Income People of Options

In 2006 North Carolina joined a growing list of states that ban “payday lending.” Payday loans are small, short-term loans made to workers to provide them with cash until their next paychecks. This kind of borrowing is costly, reflecting both the substantial risk of nonpayment and high overhead costs of dealing with many little transactions. [...]

1Apr2008 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | Continued

The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love

Lawrence Reed  is president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market research and educational organization in Midland, Michigan.
“We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.”
 
So declared British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone more than a [...]

1May2007 | Lawrence Reed | 0 comments | Continued

Big Government — Big Risk

In his Freeman column last June, “The End Run to Freedom,” economist Russell Roberts makes the following argument: As people get wealthier, they demand more security. Their demand for security leads many people to favor the welfare state or the nanny state. The welfare state refers to a government that subsidizes people who bear losses; [...]

1Jan2007 | David R. Henderson | 3 comments | Continued

The End Run to Freedom

What does the future hold for economic life in the United States? Will we move toward greater freedom or less? What role will ideas and rhetoric play, if any, in making sure that the direction is one that lovers of freedom prefer?

1Jun2006 | Russell Roberts | 0 comments | Continued

Regulatory Escalation

Robert Carreira is an economic analyst at the Center for Economic Research at Cochise College in Arizona, where he also teaches economics and political science.
An escalator mishap last July at Coors Field in Denver injured 35 people. As expected, those who see the federal nanny state as a solution to all ills are demanding more [...]

1Jan2004 | Robert Carreira | 0 comments | Continued

Of Lights and Liberty

Frank Stephenson is assistant professor of economics at Berry College and an adjunct scholar with the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Recently, while returning from lunch with a colleague, we observed a person blatantly running a red light. This event prompted my colleague to remark that he couldn’t understand why the government had not installed cameras to [...]

1Mar2001 | E. Frank Stephenson | 0 comments | Continued