All Posts Tagged With: "riots"
Henderson’s Iron Law of Government Intervention: The 1967 Detroit Riot
The more I have studied government policy over the last 40 or so years, the more strongly I have come to believe that whatever problem you name, some government intervention—a tax, a subsidy, a spending program, or a government regulation—was an important cause or, at a minimum, made the problem worse. The evidence for this [...]
26Oct2011 | David R. Henderson | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Anti-Capitalist Children of Capitalism
Alex Moseley has taught economics at the university level and is currently finishing two books for publication. The irony of the anti-capitalist protests that have plagued gatherings of world leaders in Seattle and Prague, and that threaten to disrupt any future such meetings, is that despite the atavism of the activists’ ideology, their means depend [...]
1Mar2001 | Alex Moseley | 1 comment | Continued-
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