All Posts Tagged With: "Subsidy"
Raw Milk and the Sour State
Whether it is an expensive organic brand or simply carries a mega-chain store name, that milk has undergone pasteurization and homogenization. There is a growing subset of consumers who would prefer not to buy their milk this way. They want it unpasteurized, unhomogenized—in a word, “raw.”
20Jan2009 | William E. Pike | 13 comments | ContinuedSubsidies Hurt Recipients, Too
More than ever, historians need to study the economic consequences of government programs. Only by analyzing the results of past government intervention can we calculate the impact of future government intervention. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) provides a useful example. Established as part of the New Deal in the 1930s, it was a favorite program [...]
1Oct2007 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 1 comment | ContinuedWe Have Enough Globalization?
Jude Blanchette is a freelance writer living in Shanghai. The debate over free trade is, and has been for over 200 years, quite contentious. In reading over the historical debates, it often seems as if no ground has been made by the advocates of a global, borderless economy. Indeed, this is what makes reading Adam [...]
1Jun2007 | Jude Blanchette | 0 comments | ContinuedBacksliding Liberalism
A well-known attorney and patriot from Virginia identifies our most dangerous enemies—the foes of our own household. For centuries liberalism has meant a faith in individual liberty—the greatest possible freedom from both private dictation and from regulation by the government. Historic liberals have opposed increased taxing and spending and lawmaking by political rulers because these [...]
1Jul1956 | Donald R. Richberg | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Forgotten Man
Mr. Chamberlain, the well-known literary critic, is also an associate editor of Barron’s. He’s the one from whom the money is taken to subsidize the others A nation begins to decline when it neglects its own classics. But no trend is necessarily permanent, and classics can come back. Take the case of William Graham Sumner’s [...]
1Sep1955 | John Chamberlain | 4 comments | Continued-
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