All Posts Tagged With: "social justice"
Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
Every generation faces the struggle for freedom anew, but not alone. To be successful it must draw on its inherited ideas of freedom, then reformulate them into a message that is relevant and inspiring to the people of a particular time and place. Success in this task requires both a message and a messenger: something [...]
24Feb2011 | Ben Asa Rast | 0 comments | ContinuedMore 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 | ContinuedEducation Is the Effect, Not the Cause, of Affluence
Despite its abysmal record, the United Nations wears a mantle of legitimacy in the popular discourse. Almost every daily newspaper or nightly newscast reports some UN-sponsored agency’s activities regarding world hunger, climate change, disease, or some other problem. All too often the UN is on the wrong side of reality. Take its latest “solution” to [...]
7Jul2010 | Jude Blanchette | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality
The recent financial crisis has expanded the power of government. Tea parties have revealed the disillusion of millions of Americans with the rise of government and the decline of morality. The crisis has damaged, unfairly, the vision of market liberalism. It is essential, therefore, to reexamine and articulate the principles of a free society and [...]
29Jun2010 | James A. Dorn | 10 comments | ContinuedThe Legal Foundations of Free Markets
The Legal Foundations of Free Markets, a recent book from the veteran British free-market Institute of Economic Affairs, brings together essays by nine leading experts in law and economics that delve into the interface between the legal system and the economy. The book blends historical analysis, economics, and legal theory, yielding many penetrating insights. Each [...]
5Jan2010 | George C. Leef | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2008/5
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution by Kevin R. C. Gutzman Regnery • 2007 • 258 pages • $19.95 paperback Reviewed by J. H. Huebert Conservative commentators often tell us that if only we would get back to the Constitution as it was understood, say, 100 years ago, all would be well with our [...]
1May2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedCultural Competence and Your Child
A buzz term is appearing with increased frequency in the literature and programs surrounding education at both the public-school and university levels: cultural competence. Parents would do well to ask, “What is it, and how could it affect my children?” The term “cultural competence” first arose in connection with health care, where a standard definition is: [...]
1Sep2007 | Wendy McElroy | 2 comments | ContinuedTolls on the Road to Serfdom
D.W. MacKenzie is an assistant professor of economics and finance at SUNY Plattsburgh. Many people think their taxes are too high and that the tax system is unfair. While those who favor individual liberty might find this encouraging, the specific reasons for discontent are not entirely positive. Many Americans think the current system is unfair [...]
1Apr2007 | D.W. MacKenzie | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Struggle to Subdue Luck
There was a time in Western societies under the rule of law when a person’s circumstances, such as his relative position in society, could only be branded as unjust if they could be shown to result from some breach of the rules of justice. The rules were enshrined in ageless conventions and elaborated in common [...]
1Apr2007 | Anthony de Jasay | 0 comments | ContinuedBelt and Braces in the Labor Market
Like every exchange, the exchange of labor for money is protected, as it were, by a belt, the contract. Labor, it is argued, must additionally be protected by the braces of justification. In even plainer English, this means that in order to dismiss a worker, an employer cannot simply rely on the contract telling him that he can do so by giving notice that will, so to speak, unbuckle the belt. He must also contrive to unbutton the braces by dealing with a requirement of justification.
1Jun2006 | Anthony de Jasay | 0 comments | ContinuedAntonio Rosmini: Philosopher of Property
Over the past several decades The Freeman and FEE have introduced the liberty-loving public to many great thinkers of the past who otherwise would have fallen into oblivion.
1Apr2006 | Alberto Mingardi | 0 comments | ContinuedBritain’s Pension Problem: Government Failure
Proposals to privatize part of Social Security have met with an outcry from predictable quarters. Many articles have referred, unfavorably, to British experience and suggested that the United States may simply be following the same failed route as Britain. As a British observer of that debate, I am not alone in finding the parodies of [...]
1May2005 | Philip Booth | 1 comment | ContinuedNo More Subsidies for Higher Education
One of the most durable American shibboleths is that the more formal schooling young people get, the better off society will be. President Clinton, for example, proposed that we have a universal K-14 system, which would mean that the state would no longer be content with keeping children in school through high school, but that [...]
1Jul2002 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Living Wage Folly
As of July 2001, 62 municipalities (cities, counties, and government school districts) in 24 states had enacted “living wage” regulations affecting all private and nonprofit enterprises with which they do business. California, Michigan, and Wisconsin have more living-wage ordinances (LWOs) than other states, but LWOs are spread widely over the entire country. Moreover, there are [...]
1Jun2002 | Charles W. Baird | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Perils of Populism
Populist policies that promote divisions between rich and poor sow the seeds of social instability and economic destruction. Zimbabwe’s economic crisis and recent demonstrations can be traced directly to the rhetoric of populism used by the current government. In the first instance, basing public policy on populism creates false expectations among the poor that cannot [...]
1May2002 | Christopher Lingle | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/3
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin’s Press o 2000 o 483 pages o $32.50 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy and Defense Policy edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol Encounter Books o 2000 o 401 pages [...]
1Mar2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Trouble with Teacher Training
This is an article about an absurd state of affairs in the field of education, but I’d like to begin with a little thought experiment having nothing directly to do with education. Imagine two countries-Freedonia and Ruloveria-whose inhabitants like music. However, the two follow entirely different methods of training the musicians who play in their [...]
1Nov2001 | George C. Leef | 3 comments | Continued-
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