All Posts Tagged With: "State education"
Looking in the Mirror
Quite frequently, I hear, “How do you justify working at a state university and holding libertarian views? That’s hypocritical!” The question is not as easy to answer as I would like–a fact that makes the accusation understandable (but, I hope, in the final analysis untrue). My employer, George Mason University, is indeed a government-created and [...]
23Sep2009 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 35 comments | ContinuedClassical Libertarian Compromises on State Education
Dr. West is emeritus professor of economics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and author of Education and the State (Liberty Press). There seems to be a consensus that the typical intellectual today is more comfortable than most with the government supply of education. But what of the intellectuals who were also advocates of laissez [...]
1Oct1996 | Edwin G. West | 0 comments | Continued-
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