All Posts Tagged With: "Robert Reich"
More Income Redistribution Will End the Great Recession?
With increasingly widespread recognition of the failure of Keynesian economic policies, all the Progressives are left with are claims whose acceptance requires a suspension of one’s logical faculties. An excellent example of this is a September 2, 2010, New York Times op-ed by Robert Reich, the Clinton administration secretary of labor and professor of public [...]
24Nov2010 | Ivan Pongracic Jr. | 4 comments | ContinuedFantasy Is Not an Adult Policy Option
The Freeman, quite understandably, has an editorial focus on the advocacy of libertarian solutions to economic and social problems. In this article, however, I wish to enter a plea for adult solutions to such problems, a plea that transcends any left/right or statist/libertarian dichotomies. As I hope to persuade readers—or any serious advocates of any [...]
24Feb2010 | Gene Callahan | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Continuing Fallacy of Government “Creating Jobs”
Adam Smith said it best when he noted that "consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production." Unlike what Reich claims, an economy cannot be oriented solely toward production or solely toward consumption.
25Nov2009 | William L. Anderson | 2 comments | ContinuedReason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
By Robert Reich Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Mar2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedMore Public Investment Needed?
It must be something in the water. Robert Kuttner is the latest writer from the Boston suburbs to complain that Americans don’t spend enough of their hard-earned money on “public investment.” In a column that the Washington Post titled “Public Parsimony, Private Affluence” (November 29, 1999), Kuttner concluded that “paradoxically, a period of unprecedented private [...]
1Mar2000 | David Boaz | 1 comment | ContinuedCapitalism and the Common Man
There are some arguments, having a faint measure of plausibility, that have served politicians, charlatans, and assorted do-gooders for well over a century in their quest for control. One of those arguments is: capitalism primarily benefits the rich and not the common man. That vision prompts declarations such as Representative Richard Gephardt’s assertion that high-income [...]
1Jan2000 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedLegalized Theft Is Good for the Poor?
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich spent the 1980s at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government spreading lies in the service of socialism. Not socialism as government ownership of the means of production but rather, as F. A. Hayek defined it in The Road to Serfdom, “chiefly the extensive redistribution of incomes through taxation and [...]
1Oct1999 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | Continued-
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