All Posts Tagged With: "privilege"
Capitalists Should Love the Estate Tax?
Writing in the February 15 issue of online magazine Salon, philosophy professor Sam Fleischacker says that he found it “inspiring” that George Soros, Bill Gates Sr., Warren Buffett, and several other wealthy people had spoken out in favor of retaining the estate tax. Fleischacker argues that it is precisely defenders of capitalism who should “fervently [...]
1Jul2001 | Aeon J. Skoble | 3 comments | ContinuedWhole Language: Emancipatory Pedagogy or Socialist Nonsense?
Patrick Groff is professor of education emeritus at San Diego State University. The “whole language” method of reading instruction is a highly popular, yet experimentally discredited teaching innovation. The educational principle that governs it falsely states that students best learn to read in the same informal, natural manner they previously learned to speak as preschoolers. [...]
1Jul2000 | Patrick Groff | 1 comment | ContinuedEconomic Calculation Revisited
Now that outright socialism has failed, the quest for a third way has gained prominence. Political leaders insist that a free society is inherently unjust and the privileged prosper at the expense of the unfortunate many. Thus the state must correct the failures of the market. The critics of the modern version of Western “capitalist” [...]
1Sep1999 | Manuel F. Ayau | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Entrepreneur as a Defender of Liberty
Dr. Livingston is vice president and director of Freeman Services at The Foundation for Economic Education. Entrepreneurs have the unparalleled ability to satisfy our material wants and needs. To seek and win customer approval on a daily basis, market competitors must continually offer improved quality and lower prices. Our well-being is also profoundly affected by [...]
1Sep1996 | Felix R. Livingston | 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 | ContinuedIncome Distribution
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. People paying each other for goods and services generate income. While many people’s entire income comes from a salary paid to them by a given employer, many others collect individual fees for [...]
1Jan1996 | Thomas Sowell | 0 comments | ContinuedIs There a Right to Work?
Copyright 1995 by Gary North. Dr. North is president of The Institute for Christian Economics in Tyler, Texas. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the most popular phrases among conservative Americans was “the right to work.” It was a code phrase for “anti-labor union laws.” This was recognized by both friends and foes [...]
1Sep1995 | Gary North | 1 comment | Continued-
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