All Posts Tagged With: "urban renewal"
Henderson’s Iron Law of Government Intervention: The 1967 Detroit Riot
The more I have studied government policy over the last 40 or so years, the more strongly I have come to believe that whatever problem you name, some government intervention—a tax, a subsidy, a spending program, or a government regulation—was an important cause or, at a minimum, made the problem worse. The evidence for this [...]
26Oct2011 | David R. Henderson | 5 comments | ContinuedA Libertarian Program for Urban Renewal
In the spirit of providing politically feasible “libertarian policies,” I want to offer a set of proposals to improve one area of American society that desperately needs it: the inner city.
29Sep2011 | Steven Horwitz | 14 comments | ContinuedIntellectuals and Society
If you trace back to the origins of almost any damaging public-policy idea in America, you find it rooted in the imagination of some intellectual. Just to pick one field, consider housing. Why do we have huge tracts of depressing, unsafe, unclean public housing in some of our largest cities? That did not simply happen—the [...]
24Feb2011 | George C. Leef | 5 comments | ContinuedScratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any [...]
1Dec2007 | Charles Johnson | 60 comments | Continued-
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