All Posts Tagged With: "ownership"

Who Owns the Fed?

Have you heard? The Federal Reserve System raked in profits of $79.3 billion last year, almost triple what runner-up ExxonMobil made. The Fed’s business model is a snap—just print money—and unlike poor beleaguered Exxon, the Fed has no competition to worry about. This means a gigantic windfall for the big banks because, although they don’t [...]

21Apr2011 | Warren C. Gibson | 18 comments | Continued

Free Men for Better Job Performance ~ Part I

American industry and its managements have been the world’s leaders in management techniques and in productive efficiency. However, there are signs that this leadership may be slipping. Most companies are experiencing Parkinsonism in a mild if not severe form. Decentralization and other techniques have neglected the consideration of individual employees and their ownership and control of the faculties for which they were employed.

1Jun2007 | C.L. Dickinson | 1 comment | Continued

Are Private Decisions Trustworthy?

In coming months, and probably years, President Bush’s “Ownership Society” proposals—in particular, his plans for personal accounts within Social Security, health savings accounts, and more school choice—will stimulate national discussion in directions politicians for decades have feared to tread. Whether you think the President’s specifics have merit or not, this development should be seen as [...]

1Jun2005 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | Continued

The Economic Foundation of Freedom

The late Howard Buffett was a U.S. representative from Nebraska (1943–1949 and 1951–1953). This article, condensed from a lecture at Midland College in Fremont, Nebraska, is reprinted from The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, December 1956. For more information on Buffett see Joseph R. Stromberg, “Howard Homan Buffett: Old Rightist Extraordinaire” at www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s042401.html. A clear understanding [...]

1Sep2003 | Howard Buffett | 1 comment | Continued

Roads in a Market Economy

Mr. Semmens is an economist with the Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. No one has labored longer than Gabriel Roth has in the pursuit of a more efficient transportation system. For over 40 years he has been analyzing problems and suggesting solutions. Most of this work has been in the form of shorter policy studies, [...]

1Aug1996 | John Semmens | 1 comment | Continued

Tacit Consent: A Quiet Tyranny

Mr. Greenwood is a journalist in Billings, Montana. To the student of liberty, John Locke has always been an important philosopher. His doctrine of rights, especially property rights, has always struck the imagination. On the other hand, John Rawls is thought of by many who value freedom as a dangerous philosopher. His concern with fairness [...]

1Jan1995 | Bowen H. Greenwood | 1 comment | Continued

Private Property Ownership

Mr. Bellerue is a real property analyst specializing in eminent domain. According to the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” This clause, known as the eminent domain reservation, [...]

1Jan1995 | Al Bellerue | 21 comments | Continued

Private Property and Government Under the Constitution

The economic concept of private property refers to the rights owners have to the exclusive use and disposal of a physical object. Property is not a table, a chair, or an acre of land. It is the bundle of rights which the owner is entitled to employ those objects. The alternative (collectivist) view is that [...]

1Jan1995 | Gary M. Pecquet | 5 comments | Continued

Fluoridated Water

Dr. Leitch is a practicing physician and surgeon and a former member of the editorial star of Northwest Medicine. Pap on tap! Or is it poison? Anyone who wants to argue for or against fluoride treatment to reduce tooth decay should have little trouble finding medical and dental authorities to support whatever stand he takes. [...]

1Jul1956 | Gordon B. Leitch M.D. | 0 comments | Continued

Letters

Concerning Water Dear Mr. Read: Congratulations on publishing the stimulating and challenging article on “Ownership and Control of Water” in the November issue of Ideas On Liberty. It is highly important that we think more about such fine points of complexity in our societal system. I offer these further thoughts on water rights, not as [...]

1Mar1956 | Murray N. Rothbard | 0 comments | Continued

The Perfect Price

Mr. Fairless is Chairman of the Executive Advisory Committee, United States Steel Corporation. What determines the price of a ton of steel? Who sets it? Just what is the policy of United States Steel as to prices? Along with other successful American industries, we in the steel business learned a long time ago that the [...]

1Jan1956 | Benjamin F. Fairless | 0 comments | Continued

Why Pay For Things?

Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. “Why do we have to pay for things?” asked a five-year-old boy at dinner one evening. Probably his question was prompted by the suffering of privation endured by all small boys, with their many wants to be served by few pennies. [...]

1Jan1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | Continued

The Ownership And Control Of Water

Editor’s note: “What is the libertarian philosophy concerning ownership, control and use of water resources?” asks a professor who is studying the subject. That is about as tough a question as has ever been thrown at F.E.E.—a problem to which we’ve given little, if any, attention. But what an opportunity for a libertarian to test [...]

1Nov1955 | Alexis De Tocqueville | 2 comments | Continued

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