All Posts Tagged With: "Richard Vedder"
The College Scam
What do Michael Dell, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Mark Cuban have in common? They’re all college dropouts. Richard Branson, Simon Cowell, and Peter Jennings? They never went to college at all. But today all kids are told: To succeed, you must go to college. Hillary Clinton tells students: “Graduates from four-year colleges earn nearly [...]
21Sep2011 | John Stossel | 0 comments | ContinuedUnions Lose Respect
I have often argued that American labor unions enjoy much more respect than they deserve. In February the Pew Research Center released the results of its latest nationwide survey of public opinion regarding labor unions. It seems that, at last, labor unions are suffering significant losses of respect. Table 1 shows the percentage of Americans [...]
29Jun2010 | Charles W. Baird | 8 comments | ContinuedGood Economists, Bad Economists, and Walmart
Good economists are seldom popular with the political class. This is not unique to democratic systems; dictators like good economists even less. Why? As a rule, politics doesn’t educate. It obfuscates, pontificates, and prevaricates. It often seeks to advance the interests of the few at the expense of the many. It is a playground for [...]
29Jun2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 13 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – January 2008
- The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
by David Gratzer Reviewed by Jane M. Orient
- Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans
Edited by Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson, and Thomas F. Flanagan Reviewed by William L. Anderson, Jr.
- The Wal-Mart Revolution
by Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox Reviewed by George Leef - On the Wealth of Nations
by P.J. O’Rourke Reviewed by Raymond J. Keating
Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom
Imagine that there is an equivalent of the Academy Awards for politicians. We have just gotten to the big moment. “And the Oscar for Greatest President goes to . . . . um . . . . Martin Van Buren?” Almost no one ever thinks of Martin Van Buren at all, much less as the [...]
1Sep2002 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Poverty of Regulation
Ronald Reagan famously asked voters during the 1980 presidential campaign, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” A similar test can be applied to government regulation: Has it left us safer and healthier than we would have been without it? Just like the voters in 1980, we can answer that question with [...]
1Dec1999 | Michael J. Catanzaro | 3 comments | Continued-
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