All Posts Tagged With: "social justice"
Inequality of Wealth and Incomes
Editor’s Note: Last January the Economic Policy Institute and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released a study decrying the growing income inequality in America and calling on government to rectify this alleged injustice. “The economic prosperity of the 1990s has not been shared equally, ‘” wrote the authors. There is no better response [...]
1Apr2000 | Ludwig von Mises | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Stakeholder Society by Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott
Yale University Press • 1999 • 296 pages • $26.00 This book amounts to nothing more than a new version of how to take wealth from some and give it to others in the name of “social justice.” Its principal theme is that Jefferson’s proclamation in the Declaration of Independence of equality and freedom of [...]
1Apr2000 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedWelcome to Canada
Monte Solberg is a member of the Canadian Parliament and chief finance critic for the Reform Party. People who are newcomers or visitors to Canada sometimes have trouble understanding how our government works so I have prepared the following short primer. Taxes are the money forcibly taken from almost every man, woman, and child in [...]
1Dec1999 | Monte Solberg | 0 comments | ContinuedFriedrich A. Hayek: A Centenary Appreciation
In 1967, English economist Sir John Hicks published an essay titled “The Hayek Story” in which he said that: When the definitive history of economic analysis during the nineteen thirties comes to be written, a leading character in the drama (it was quite a drama) will be Professor Hayek. . . . Hayek’s economic writings [...]
1May1999 | Richard M. Ebeling | 3 comments | ContinuedAchieving Our Country
George Leef, president of Patrick Henry Associates in Michigan, is book review editor of The Freeman. Do leftists have anything new to say? Any interesting responses to the many arguments advocates of freedom have lodged against their coercive nostrums? Any novel socio-economic analysis to which we ought to pay attention? The only way to find [...]
1Nov1998 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedLet’s Not Throw American Medicine into Boston Harbor
Jane Orient, M.D., is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the FEE Board of Trustees. She is the author of Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care and a new novel about where the money is in medicine, Sutton’s Law. The ongoing [...]
1Jul1998 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | ContinuedSocial Justice
The pursuit of social justice probably accounts for most human misery. What’s more, throughout history, one form of injustice has usually been replaced by another that is far worse. Russia’s 1917 revolution expelling the Czars and their injustices ushered in Lenin, Stalin, and a succession of brutal dictators who murdered tens of millions in the name of the proletarian revolution.
1Jul1998 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedLibertarians and Liberalism: Essays in Honour of Gerard Radnitzky edited by Hardy Bouillon
Avebury; Aldershot, England • 1996 • 359 pages • $76.50 Gerard Radnitzky is a name little known in America, but he is a prominent figure in European liberal (using the word, of course, in its original meaning) circles. A native of Germany, he defected from the German military in April 1945, flying his airplane to [...]
1Jul1997 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Role of Government: Promoting Development or Getting Out of the Way
Mr. Bandow, a monthly columnist for The Freeman, is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World. Of all the tasks assumed by government, none is more inappropriate than that of promoting economic development. It is [...]
1Mar1997 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | ContinuedEuropean Malaise
An American who looks upon the world perceives many forms of misery. Many are worse than his own. Looking upon Europe he may be surprised and dismayed about the economic difficulties some countries are experiencing and the political turmoil that is tearing them apart. The countries of Eastern Europe continue to suffer the pains of [...]
1Feb1997 | Hans F. Sennholz | 1 comment | ContinuedEnding Tax Socialism
In 1848 Marx and Engels proposed that progressive taxation be used to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeois, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state. Although communism has failed, the idea of progressive taxation as a means of achieving social justice endures. A progressive income tax violates the [...]
1Nov1996 | James A. Dorn | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Just Society
Dr. Nash is professor of philosophy at Reformed Theological Seminary and the author of Why the Left is Not Right: The Religious Left in America (Zondervan Publishing House). Whenever one comes upon a university press book containing multiple essays by different authors, all of them academics, it’s a pretty safe bet that the book will [...]
1Oct1996 | Ronald Nash | 0 comments | ContinuedThielicke on the Modern Welfare State
Mr. Walker is an attorney in private practice in Tallahassee, Florida. Helmut Thielicke was a leading Christian theologian of the post-World War II era. Early in his career, Thielicke was removed from his teaching position at the University of Heidelberg because of his criticism of the Nazi regime. Late in the war, he was allowed [...]
1Aug1996 | Daniel F. Walker | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality
Government and Morality The growth of government has politicized life and weakened the nation’s moral fabric. Government intervention—in the economy, in the community, and in society—has increased the payoff from political action and reduced the scope of private action. People have become more dependent on the State and have sacrificed freedom for a false sense [...]
1Mar1996 | James A. Dorn | 0 comments | ContinuedLegislated Security Is Bondage
Excerpts from an address, December 5, 1916, The “grand old man” of labor—president of the AFL, 1886-1924—warned his union members to look behind the humanitarian slogans used by the advocates of government-guaranteed security There has never yet come down from any government any substantial improvement in the conditions of the masses of the people, unless [...]
1Sep1955 | Samuel Gompers | 0 comments | Continued-
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