All Posts Tagged With: "statism"
Cleaning Up After the Elephants
I detect a pattern in the challenges hurled at liberals on nearly every issue. The opponent of liberalism describes a problem, invariably with roots in a government infringement of freedom. In response, he prescribes more government interference with freedom, at which point the liberal interjects that the best and only just solution is the repeal [...]
1Aug2006 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedNot Losing Sight of the Best in the Pursuit of Liberty
The eighteenth-century French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire warned that “the best is the enemy of the good.” He meant that in trying to pursue unattainable perfection, we may miss the opportunity to create something better than what we have. There is much wisdom in these words. But there is danger in its opposite: If we allow [...]
1Aug2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – August 2006
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Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WW II Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan
by A. C. Grayling
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How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
by Richard A. Epstein Reviewed
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Saving Our Environment from Washington
by David Schoenbrod Reviewed by Jane S. Shaw
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The Quotable Mises
Edited by Mark Thornton Reviewed by William H. Peterson
Mencken’s Wisdom
Donald Boudreaux (dboudrea@gmu.edu) is chairman of the economics department at George Mason University.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of H. L. Mencken (1880–1956). I wish that this Bard of Baltimore had lived far longer—past the age of Methuselah—so that those of us born after World War II could have enjoyed his brilliant [...]
The Jewel of Consistency
The acid test is that a man live by the principles he professes to believe.
1Jun2006 | Fred DeArmond | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – June 2006
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good by William Easterly — reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein — reviewed by Gary M. Galles
Water for Sale: How Business and the Market Can Resolve the Worlds Water Crisis by Fredrik Segerfeldt — reviewed by George C. Leef
Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity by James Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Dwight R. Lee — reviewed by Tom Lehman
1Jun2006 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Friends of Freedom Can Learn From The Socialists
On March 14, 1883, a German philosopher living in exile in London passed away. When he was buried three days later in a modest grave where his wife had been laid to rest two years earlier, fewer than ten people were present, half of them family members. His closest friend spoke at the gravesite and [...]
1Oct2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Most Insidious Tax
Dale Haywood is a professor of business at Northwood University and an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, both in Midland, Michigan.
People don’t generally spend and invest other people’s money as carefully as they do their own. This single, simple fact goes a long way toward explaining why capitalism works and statism [...]
Global Capitalism: Curing Oppression and Poverty
Andrew Bernstein (www.andrewbernstein.net) is the author of The Capitalist Manifesto (University Press of America, forthcoming next year).
Although leftist agitators continue to protest global capitalism, they overlook the key points in the debate. Capitalism has been instituted on three continents—in western Europe, North America, and Asia. These nations—England, France, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, and [...]
Orissa’s Man-Made Tragedy
Barun Mitra is founder of Liberty Institute, an independent think tank in New Delhi, India. Reprinted by permission of The Asian Wall Street Journal, November 10, 1999. Copyright 1999, Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All rights reserved worldwide.
New Delhi—Twelve days after a super cyclone hit the state of Orissa, India is still grappling with the [...]
The Dogma of Our Times
What history will think of our times is something that only history will reveal. But, it is a good guess that it will select collectivism as the identifying characteristic of the twentieth century. For even a quick survey of the developing pattern of thought during the past fifty years shows up the dominance of one [...]
21Nov2009 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | Continued-
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
