All Posts Tagged With: "state coercion"
The Subsidy of History
A considerable number of libertarian commentators have remarked on the sheer scale of subsidies and protections to big business, on their structural importance to the existing form of corporate capitalism, and on the close intermeshing of corporate and state interests in the present state capitalist economy. We pay less attention, however, to the role of [...]
1Jun2008 | Kevin A. Carson | 16 comments | ContinuedThe Game of Politics
In a recent column in Metro magazine, published in Raleigh, North Carolina, the former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Jim Leutze, lamented that “calling for conservation [is] like shouting down a well.” He is unhappy that the state legislature has so far resisted proposals to increase taxes to fund the kinds [...]
1Jan2008 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedHow a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming
The phrase “global warming” has been around for quite some time, but in the past year it has captured the spotlight as never before. One can’t turn on the radio or open a newspaper without facing ads from “green” corporations, or hearing the latest way to reduce one’s “carbon footprint.” With even prominent Republicans (such [...]
1Oct2007 | Gene Callahan | 11 comments | ContinuedFreedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen
It has been said that one of the devil’s favorite tricks is to make you think he does not exist. In Freedom in Chains, James Bovard shows how the cheerleaders for statism have spent the last two and a half centuries trying to persuade us that government coercion does not exist, or at least is [...]
1May2000 | Robert Batemarco | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Entrepreneur as a Defender of Liberty
Dr. Livingston is vice president and director of Freeman Services at The Foundation for Economic Education. Entrepreneurs have the unparalleled ability to satisfy our material wants and needs. To seek and win customer approval on a daily basis, market competitors must continually offer improved quality and lower prices. Our well-being is also profoundly affected by [...]
1Sep1996 | Felix R. Livingston | 1 comment | Continued-
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