All Posts Tagged With: "paternalism"
Free Markets, the Rule of Law, and Classical Liberalism
The history of liberty and prosperity is inseparable from the practice of free enterprise and respect for the rule of law. Both are products of the spirit of classical liberalism. But a correct understanding of free enterprise, the rule of law, and liberalism (rightly understood) is greatly lacking in the world today. Historically, liberalism is [...]
1May2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedThere Is No Central Plan for Winning Liberty
People who become enthusiastic supporters of the freedom philosophy often ask how the case for individual liberty, free markets, and constitutionally limited government can be successfully spread across the land. How can it triumph over the prevailing system of governmental paternalism? In frustration and despair they point out that the interventionist-welfare state has its advocates [...]
1Jan2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Social Security Reform Paternalistic?
One great, and valid, complaint about Social Security is that it is paternalistic: it does things for the individual that he should do for himself. In so doing, it commits the twin transgressions of forcing some people to support others and making the beneficiaries the servile dependents of the state.
1Jan2004 | John Attarian | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State
It took America’s professional politicians little more than three decades to spend more than $5.5 trillion on welfare programs for their constituents. Looking back, we know the results have not been pretty: work incentives were stood on their head by moral hazards created by government largess. Millions of able-bodied people have been trapped in poverty [...]
1Sep2000 | David L. Littmann | 0 comments | ContinuedModeration in All Things
Aristotle wisely advised moderation in all things. Gluttons and fanatics self-destruct by refusing to make the tradeoffs necessary to lead a good life. “Don’t tell me that I can’t drink and carouse every night and not succeed in my career!” insists the fool. “I can have it all.” Well, he can’t. No one can. That’s [...]
1Mar2000 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedPolitical Accounting
Why does the federal government, according to its own auditors, squander tens of billions of tax dollars year after year? Attempts to understand the actions of politicians and bureaucrats on the basis of private-sector decision-making are doomed to failure. Efforts to “fix” government by ending specific boondoggles are quixotic crusades. Government will continue to be [...]
1Sep1999 | James Bovard | 5 comments | ContinuedSudden Impact: The Collision of Ethics and Air Bag Mandates
Loren Lomasky teaches philosophy at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, and is the author of Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community. This article is adapted from a paper published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A John Elway forward pass travels toward its receiver at over 70 miles per hour; Randy Johnson’s fastball darts [...]
1Jan1999 | Loren Lomasky | 1 comment | ContinuedOutmoded Paternalism
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. Every month seems to bring another tragic death from binge drinking at a fraternity party. That has led to predictable cries for [...]
1Aug1998 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | ContinuedThielicke on the Modern Welfare State
Mr. Walker is an attorney in private practice in Tallahassee, Florida. Helmut Thielicke was a leading Christian theologian of the post-World War II era. Early in his career, Thielicke was removed from his teaching position at the University of Heidelberg because of his criticism of the Nazi regime. Late in the war, he was allowed [...]
1Aug1996 | Daniel F. Walker | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Free Society
Failure to go back to first principles in considering what government should do lies at the heart of the sterility of so much of today’s public debate on the issues. Lansing Pollock’s The Free Society seeks to fill that void by providing philosophical foundations for his version of limited government libertarianism. His freedom principle is [...]
1Aug1996 | Robert Batemarco | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Guaranteed Life
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959) was a noted American playwright. This essay was first written as a preface to his Knickerbocker Holiday in 1938. It was rewritten in 1950 and published as a FEE “In Brief” pamphlet. “A government is a group of men organized to sell protection to the inhabitants of a limited area at monopolistic [...]
1Mar1996 | Maxwell Anderson | 0 comments | ContinuedIncreasing Access to Pharmaceuticals
Doug Bandow, guest editor for the February Freeman, is the author and editor of several books, including Reforming Medicine Through Competition and Innovation (John Locke Foundation). The collapse of the campaign to essentially nationalize America’s health-care system put a political stake through the heart of proposals to solve medical problems with new bureaucracies and more [...]
1Feb1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Happiness
“[F]reedom is undoubtedly the indispensable condition, without which even the pursuits most congenial to individual human nature can never succeed in producing such salutary influences. Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter his very being, but still remains alien to his [...]
1Jan1996 | Bryan Caplan | 0 comments | ContinuedBums or Brothers?
The Reverend Mr. Sollitt is minister of the First Baptist Church of Midland, Michigan. He was a tall, ungainly youth, but likable. He was sick much of the time; sometimes we felt he was less sick than he said. He had graduated from high school but could not afford to go to college, and didn’t [...]
1Aug1956 | Kenneth W. Sollitt | 0 comments | ContinuedFluoridated 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 | ContinuedTo Find the Way Out
Mr. Henderson (1861-1941), teacher and lecturer, also wrote a number of books on education and morals. Seed time and harvest have followed in their appointed season, and Mother Earth has been as steady going as any conservative could wish. She has been a good neighbor. In the country we count it neighborly to mind your [...]
1Jul1956 | Hanford Henderson | 0 comments | Continued-
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