All Posts Tagged With: "Progressive Era"

Eugenics: Progressivism’s Ultimate Social Engineering

According to the received account of the Progressive Era, an enlightened government swept in and regulated markets for goods, labor, and capital, thereby protecting the hapless masses from the vicissitudes of unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. The Progressives had faith that experts would rise above self-interest and implement wise plans to create a great society. The resulting [...]

21Sep2011 | and and Art Carden | 21 comments | Continued

The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History

Today’s most crucial policy battles are about federal spending and the scope of government power. Cato Institute scholar John Samples reminds us in this book that those battles have their origins in the Progressive era, the New Deal, and the Great Society. Early in the twentieth century Herbert Croly (cofounder of The New Republic) argued [...]

24Aug2011 | Greg Kaza | 0 comments | Continued

Reaping the Whirlwind of Progressivism, Part I

From numerous wars (to promote “democracy” abroad) to the current depression, we see the imprint of Progressivism.

30Jun2010 | William L. Anderson | 8 comments | Continued

Do We Need “Progressive” Newspapers?

I recently read Alex S. Jones’s Losing the News, which says if that American newspapers go out of business, Americans will lose the “iron core of news” that permits us to be a “self-governing people.” If a few more of these outfits go under, he says, we’re doomed! Are we?

3Mar2010 | William L. Anderson | 5 comments | Continued

Marching to Bismarck’s Drummer: The Origins of the Modern Welfare State

Soviet socialism may now be a thing of the past, but there is one form of statism that still dominates the world, including the United States: the modern welfare state. Its tentacles of paternalistic control reach into every corner of personal and social life. It has made all of us “children of the state,” and [...]

1Dec2007 | Richard M. Ebeling | 5 comments | Continued

Freedom and the Hotel: The Lessons of the St. Nicholas and Statler

Imagine you were a commercial traveler of a century ago. Life would consist of endless hardships, wouldn’t it? Primitive transportation, primitive lodgings, primitive food service. A grungy daily grind, to be sure. But that picture is inaccurate. The hotel industry was in the midst of a transformation whose legacy is still evident today. This progress [...]

1Mar2006 | Daniel Hager | 0 comments | Continued

The Progressive Era’s Derailment of Classical-Liberal Evolution

Fred Smith is president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. It is true that where a considerable part of the costs incurred are external costs from the point of view of the acting individuals or firms, the economic calculation established by them is manifestly defective and their results deceptive. But this is not the outcome of [...]

1Jun2004 | Fred Smith | 3 comments | Continued

A Century of Forest Service Ineptitude

John A. Baden is chairman of the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE) and the Gallatin Institute, an organization for writers of the West. Andrew C. St. Lawrence, an intern at FREE and the Gallatin Institute, is a student at Montana State University studying animal and range science. This year marks the [...]

1Oct1997 | and and John A. Baden | 0 comments | Continued

Federal Government Growth Before the New Deal

Professor Holcombe teaches economics at Florida State University. Popular opinion holds that most of the credit (or blame) for the incredible growth of the federal government should go to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal. While Roosevelt certainly was a willing participant in that process, the federal government began its amazingly rapid growth [...]

1Sep1997 | Randall G. Holcombe | 0 comments | Continued

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