All Posts Tagged With: "toll roads"

Government Fundamentalism

Many free-market economists like me are quite willing to admit that markets don’t work perfectly and to examine and accept government solutions if their advocates can show how governments can be motivated to actually carry them out. And yet we are called market fundamentalists. On the other hand, many people who call us that are unwilling to change any of their views about the efficacy of government intervention no matter how badly the intervention works. Who are the fundamentalists here?

21May2009 | David R. Henderson | 16 comments | Continued

Are Highways Subsidized?

I have always loved trains. I am an ardent cyclist, and I never particularly liked automobiles. So I always took it for granted that the reason most Americans drive and passenger trains have nearly disappeared is that our highways are unfairly subsidized. I felt particularly incensed that the Interstate Highway System, which took business from [...]

1Nov2006 | Randal OToole | 8 comments | Continued

Roads in a Market Economy

Mr. Semmens is an economist with the Laissez-Faire Institute in Chandler, Arizona. No one has labored longer than Gabriel Roth has in the pursuit of a more efficient transportation system. For over 40 years he has been analyzing problems and suggesting solutions. Most of this work has been in the form of shorter policy studies, [...]

1Aug1996 | John Semmens | 1 comment | Continued

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