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The Game of Politics
In a recent column in Metro magazine, published in Raleigh, North Carolina, the former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Jim Leutze, lamented that “calling for conservation [is] like shouting down a well.” He is unhappy that the state legislature has so far resisted proposals to increase taxes to fund the kinds [...]
1Jan2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Taking things for granted isn’t always a bad idea. Anyone who checks the morning paper to see if the sun will rise in the east is wasting his time. But the role of property has been taken for granted, with awful results. Economics textbooks may discuss incentives to invest, but they seldom, if ever, make [...]
1Jan2002 | William B. Conerly | 0 comments | ContinuedEnterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915 by Robert C. Kenzer
University Press of Virginia • 1997 • xvi + 178 pages • $30.00 Richard Gamble is a professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic College. In this meticulous and tightly argued volume, historian Robert Kenzer corrects what he describes as the prevailing “monolithic” view of the economic condition of North Carolina blacks in the 50 [...]
1Feb1999 | Richard M. Gamble | 0 comments | Continued-
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