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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 | ContinuedFreedom and Language
Fifty years ago, the world emerged from a military conflict with substantial intellectual ramifications. Nazism and fascism were ideologies that needed to be defeated along with the military powers that wielded them. During the ensuing “cold” war, communism and socialism emerged as ideologies that called for intellectual confrontation. Of course, the United States also fought [...]
1Sep1996 | Aeon J. Skoble | 5 comments | ContinuedHow Much Do You Know About Liberty? (a quiz)
Try your hand at answering the following questions: 1. What method of resolving disputes did trial by jury replace? 2. Which great American patriot was called the “Prince of Smugglers”? 3. What bulwark of American liberty do we owe to the Antifederalists? 4. How many slaves were liberated by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation? 5. After the [...]
1Jun1996 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedBorn Again: The Resurgence of American Prohibition
Seventy-six years ago, America outlawed beverage alcohol. Initially popular, national Prohibition eventually collapsed amid a chorus of public resentment. The nation learned then what we know now: Prohibition doesn’t work. For all of its good intentions, prohibitionism is fatally flawed as public policy. It injects government into private lives. It makes criminals out of law-abiding [...]
1Apr1996 | Mark Edward Lender | 0 comments | Continued-
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