All Posts Tagged With: "private enterprise"

Free Markets Blossom in Vietnam

Americans think of the Vietnam War as the first armed conflict in our history that we lost. Tanks and troops from the communist North captured the South’s capital of Saigon on April 30, 1975, renamed it Ho Chi Minh City, and ended decades of war. Who can forget the scenes of the last frenzied evacuation [...]

7Jul2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued

How Did We Get Here?

The late Alabama governor George Wallace once said, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats.” Both Republicans and Democrats agree on taking our money. Where they differ is what to spend it on. A Democrat like Senator Edward Kennedy agrees to take our earnings and give them to cities and poor [...]

6Jul2010 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | Continued

Market-Based Higher Education

As experience continues to prove that private industry can do things more cost effectively and with better customer satisfaction than governmental entities, debate has shifted to what functions are appropriately in the government’s realm. Over the past several decades various institutions have arisen to challenge the notion that higher education is among the activities that [...]

29Jun2010 | Keith Wade | 1 comment | Continued

The Forgotten Robber Barons

Conventional wisdom, which often is mostly convention and very little wisdom, confidently instructs us that rapacious capitalists dominated and victimized American society in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The white knight of government then rode to the rescue of hapless workers and consumers. The message: business bad, government good. Honest, objective historians of [...]

19Apr2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | Continued

Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal

“He who wants to improve conditions must propagate a new mentality, not merely a new institution.” –Ludwig von Mises, New York Times, January 1942 Invisible Hands by Kim Phillips-Fein, professor of American history at New York University’s Gallatin School, is a well-researched and thorough account of resistance to government economic domination. It’s also a veritable [...]

24Feb2010 | Bettina Bien Greaves | 3 comments | Continued

Hurricane Katrina: Government versus the Private Sector

If the “American government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn’t be in this crisis.” Louisiana’s Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, paraphrasing Sheriff Harry Lee during an interview on “Meet the Press,” got to the root of all that went wrong in the buildup to and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina last August. “It’s [...]

1Oct2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued

Private Enterprise Regained

Governor Bradford’s own history of the Plymouth Bay Colony over which he presided is a story that deserves to be far better known—particularly in an age that has acquired a mania for socialism and communism, regards them as peculiarly “progressive” and entirely new, and is sure that they represent “the wave of the future.” Most [...]

1Nov2004 | Henry Hazlitt | 3 comments | Continued

A Privatization Revolution in a Most Unlikely Place

When Mount Nyiragongo suddenly gushed red hot lava down its southern slope and destroyed the town of Goma in the Congo last January, hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into tiny neighboring Rwanda. It was the first time since 1994 that Rwanda had been on the front pages in America, and most of the stories [...]

1Jun2002 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | Continued

Economics on Trial

The lighthouse example has been highlighted as a classic public good in Paul Samuelson’s famous textbook since 1964. “Its beam helps everyone in sight. A businessman could not build it for a profit, since he cannot claim a price for each user.”[1]

1Aug2000 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | Continued

Pound Scum

With 7.5 million dogs and cats euthanized each year in U.S. animal shelters, it’s hard to be turned down when you try to save one from the gas chamber. But my family managed to be turned down, making us “pound scum.” Our trip through the world of dog adoptions and purchases teaches some valuable lessons [...]

1Dec1998 | Andrew P. Morriss | 2 comments | Continued

Private Means, Public Ends: Voluntarism vs. Coercion

Do you have friends who are socialists? Show them Robert Zimmerman’s chapter, “New York’s War Against the Vans” in Private Means, Public Ends. Zimmerman shows private enterprise efficiently providing much-needed transportation, while the city transit police block passenger pickup, issue summonses, and otherwise harass van operators and passengers. If government is needed to provide such [...]

1Nov1996 | Fred E. Foldvary | 0 comments | Continued

Government in Business

In the midst of nationwide prosperity, some economic and social problems keep nagging at the public. All over the country, they take the same form. What are they? Traffic congestion, inadequate roads, overcrowded schools, juvenile delinquency, water shortages. Such matters have proven troublesome in many ways; above all, they seem to breed conflicts.

1Sep1956 | Murray N. Rothbard | 10 comments | Continued

Two Points Of View

The author, for nine years a parish minister, formerly directed the conference program for Spiritual Mobilization, and in that capacity held a number of two-day seminars for clergymen and laymen designed to promote a better understanding of the libertarian philosophy. Similar questions recurred at many of these conferences, and experience suggested ways of clearing up [...]

1Jan1956 | Edmund A. Opitz | 0 comments | Continued

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