All Posts Tagged With: "public choice theory"
Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation
Karl Marx was right—sort of. He was right in saying that society is riven by class warfare, but he got the classes wrong. It’s not the case that capitalists exploit workers, but rather that tax consumers exploit taxpayers. That truth has long been kept hidden from the average American by deceptive propaganda about the workings [...]
29Jun2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedHoward Dean: “Kill the Bill”
“This is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the United States Senate. And, honestly, the best thing to do right now is kill the Senate bill and go back to the House and start the reconciliation process, where you only need 51 votes and it would be a much simpler bill.” (Vermont Public [...]
16Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | ContinuedAre You Being Served?
“In the animal kingdom,” said psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, “the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.” It is important to use words carefully, to use words that have as exact a meaning as you can achieve. Those who manage to persuade others to use the words they wish [...]
1Nov2008 | David R. Henderson | 3 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – October 2007
- Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag
by Nicolas Werth Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Unwarranted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace
by Martin Fridson Reviewed by Robert Batemarco
- Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt’s Legacy
by Jim Powell Reviewed by John V. Denson
- Great Philanthropic Mistakes
by Martin Morse Wooster Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Oct2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued
Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy
By Bruce Bartlett Reviewed by William B. Conerly
1May2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedJapan, Germany, and the End of the Third Way
Norman Barry is a professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham, UK, the country’s only private university. Last year’s election results in Japan and Germany are not only important for those countries but also have wider lessons, for they herald a decisive defeat for a once-fashionable doctrine—the Third Way. This was [...]
1May2006 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Shady Origins of Social Security
Writing in the New York Times last January, Professor Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, described the creation of Social Security as though it were an act of divine intervention: “Social Security was created as an insurance scheme, not a pension scheme.” The passive voice is good for shrouding [...]
1Sep2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedLaw and Good Intentions
Americans, not just classical-liberal ones, have an almost instinctual distrust of government. Our nation began in a revolt inspired partly by the “Intolerable Acts” of King George III and taxation without representation. The Declaration of Independence recited a lengthy list of grievances against the British government, summarized as “a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, [...]
1Jun2005 | Andrew P. Morriss | 2 comments | ContinuedHow Nineteenth-Century Americans Responded to Government Corruption
James Rolph Edwards is an associate professor of economics at Montana State University-Northern. From its origin as a distinct secular scientific discipline with the French Physiocratic school in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the British classical school that followed, economics had a pro-market, limited-government orientation. Indeed, intellectual historians and political philosophers often refer [...]
1Apr2004 | James Rolph Edwards | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Political Economy of the New Deal
In this work, Professors Jim Couch (University of North Alabama) and William Shughart (University of Mississippi) employ public-choice theory to provide an insightful look at the New Deal. The authors mix examination of historical evidence and econometric analysis of recently rediscovered data on the spending patterns of New Deal programs to argue that the Roosevelt [...]
1Dec1999 | Andrew P. Morriss | 1 comment | ContinuedAn Open Letter to the California Legislature
As a student of public choice theory, I understand why you support SB 1241, a mandatory agency-shop bill for California State University (CSU) faculty. After all, in the words of Ambrose Bierce, “politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” The California Faculty Association (CFA) supports you in the political marketplace, [...]
1Aug1999 | Charles W. Baird | 3 comments | ContinuedTaxing Choice: The Predatory Politics of Fiscal Discrimination
Roy Cordato is Lundy Professor of Business Philosophy, Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina. As faith in big government programs has waned in the past two decades so has the ability of the government to raise revenues through income-tax increases. Until recently, deficit spending has been the route around the public’s resistance, but the people [...]
1Nov1998 | Roy Cordato | 1 comment | Continued-
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