All Posts Tagged With: "public goods"
Can Government Deliver the Goods?
Hugh Macaulay is Alumni Professor of Economics Emeritus at Clemson University. Students in their first course in economics learn that every country faces three problems that it must resolve. What goods will be produced? How will it produce these goods? and, who will get the goods produced? Since the questions deal with economic matters, it [...]
1Jan1999 | Hugh Macaulay | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economic Laws of Scientific Research by Terence Kealey
New York: St. Martin’s Press • 1996 • 396 pages • $75.00 cloth; $19.95 paperback Americans have come to accept that a vast number of important functions can only be done if they are run by or at least subsidized by the state. According to conventional wisdom, government has to provide lighthouses, bus service, income [...]
1Oct1997 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretation by Charles Murray
Broadway Books • 1997 • 192 pages • $20.00 Mr. Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is a monthly columnist for The Freeman. Charles Murray has long been one of America’s most important social scientists. His book Losing Ground touched off a debate over welfare policy by challenging widely held misconceptions of government [...]
1Jun1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedPrivate 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 | ContinuedPublic Goods and Private Communities: The Market Provision of Social Services
The primary purpose of academic programs in urban economics is to train central planners. Traditionally college courses in state and local public finance and urban economics have rationalized everything that local governments do, while invoking elaborate formulations about how these governments might do what they do more “efficiently.” Dr. Fred Foldvary’s new book, Public Goods [...]
1Mar1995 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | Continued-
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