All Posts Tagged With: "Paul Craig Roberts"
Free-Trade Theory No Longer Applies?
In an op-ed in the January 6 New York Times, “liberal” U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and conservative economist Paul Craig Roberts tapped into the anxiety felt by many Americans about their changing roles in the global economy. The authors argued that new economic conditions undermine the classic argument for free trade: The case for free [...]
1May2004 | Gene Callahan | 0 comments | ContinuedThere’s Still Work to Do
Free trade is again under assault. If there is one reason for the perennial attack it is likely the one Frédéric Bastiat made so much of: the failure to look for what is “unseen.” The costs of free trade (temporary job loss, closed firms) are easily traced to the free movement of goods, services, and [...]
1Apr2004 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Tyranny of Good Intentions by Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton
Forum • 2000 • 242 pages • $24.95 How safe are people from the encroachments of government into their lives? That has varied from place to place and time to time. In Stalin’s Soviet Union, for example, people had no security whatever. The rulers could do with them as they pleased because the concept of [...]
1Jun2001 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedThe New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy
Dr. Peterson, an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation, is the Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Item: The O. J. Simpson criminal trial verdict brings gasps and cheers. Polls show whites believe “O. J.” to be guilty by about 75 percent while blacks concur with the verdict [...]
1Jun1996 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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