All Posts Tagged With: "welfare"
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
By Robert Reich Reviewed by George C. Leef
1Mar2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises: The Political Economist of Liberty, Part II
Mises’s defense of classical liberalism against the various forms of collectivism was not limited “merely” to the economic benefits of private property.
1Jun2006 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | ContinuedJapan, Germany, and the End of the Third Way
Norman Barry is a professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham, UK, the country’s only private university. Last year’s election results in Japan and Germany are not only important for those countries but also have wider lessons, for they herald a decisive defeat for a once-fashionable doctrine—the Third Way. This was [...]
1May2006 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedSocial Security and the Insurance Illusion
In 1937, shortly after Franklin Roosevelt threatened to destroy the independence of the Supreme Court by “packing” it with ideological cronies, the Court came to heel and handed down verdicts in three cases affirming that the Social Security Act was, unlike several structurally similar pieces of pre-intimidation New Deal legislation, in accord with the U.S. [...]
1Sep2005 | Will Wilkinson | 3 comments | ContinuedHalf Full or Half Empty?
It’s easy being pessimistic about the future of America, especially for those of us who are classical liberals. We prefer limited government, yet government seems to continue to grow in all soils, in all weather, no matter which party’s watching the farm. As dispiriting as this growth can be, it’s good to remember that the [...]
1Apr2005 | Russell Roberts | 0 comments | ContinuedEstonia Moves to Liberty
Contributing editor Norman Barry (norman.barry@buckingham.ac.uk) is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the U.K. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s) and Business Ethics (Macmillan). We have read a lot about former Soviet regimes struggling to shake off the last remnants of communism. [...]
1May2004 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedEnding Farm Subsidies Wouldn’t Help the Third World?
Talks by the 146 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) collapsed last fall over trade-liberalization disputes between rich and poor countries. The biggest bone of contention was the extent to which the “first world”—mainly Europe, the United States, and Japan—were willing to slash their huge farm subsidies. More than 20 developing countries, including Brazil, [...]
1Apr2004 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 5 comments | ContinuedWhat’s Wrong with the Poverty Numbers
Last fall the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty in the United States. The report indicated that the number of people below the official poverty line had risen from 32.9 million in 2001 to 34.6 million in 2002. Worse, the official poverty rate had risen from 11.7 percent in 2001 to 12.1 [...]
1Apr2004 | Robert P. Murphy | 1 comment | ContinuedSaving Hunky Town
Arthur Foulkes is a freelance writer living in Indiana. It’s called “Hunky Town”—a small area of our city known for its large Hungarian population in the early 1900s. Now it’s just another poor neighborhood. “I sometimes forget parts of town like this exist,” my wife said as we watched the shabby homes, broken fences, and [...]
1Oct2003 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Strange Death of American Liberalism, by H.W. Brands
The Strange Death of American Liberalism by H.W. Brands Yale University Press • 2001 • 191 pages • $22.50 Reviewed by George C. Leef H.W. Brands is a prolific historian with some readable books to his credit, such as his biography of Ben Franklin, The First American. In The Strange Death of American Liberalism, however, [...]
29Jan2003 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedRace, Inequality, and the Market
Not long ago I found myself in a debate with colleagues about the economic status of black Americans vis-à-vis whites. Naturally, their presumption was against the free market. The logic, such as it was, ran as follows: (1) we live under a market system (more or less); (2) in a variety of areas blacks have [...]
1Oct2002 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedPublic Interest or Private Interest?
That private interest dominates market decisions is widely accepted, if not always applauded. Farmers don’t get up early on cold mornings in Nebraska to plant crops because of concern over world hunger, but because they want more income for themselves and their families. People don’t invest in pharmaceutical firms because they want to help the [...]
1May2002 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/3
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin’s Press o 2000 o 483 pages o $32.50 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy and Defense Policy edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol Encounter Books o 2000 o 401 pages [...]
1Mar2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedImmigration: An Abolitionist’s Cause
One of the most frequent arguments used against opening borders is that it would add to the welfare burden of the state and that innocent taxpayers will be compelled to pay for slothful immigrants. Slothful immigrants? Students in my international trade and finance classes always get a good laugh at the notion of “slothful immigrants.” [...]
1Jan2002 | Ken Schoolland | 0 comments | ContinuedFrom Pathology to Politics: Public Health in America
From Pathology to Politics, by economists James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo, is a serious, eye-opening indictment of America’s public-health establishment. Bennett and DiLorenzo mark the release of the federal government’s Kerner Report of 1968 as the point when the public-health establishment (PHE), incarnated in the American Public Health Association (APHA), crossed its Rubicon [...]
1Jan2002 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment: Head or Hand?
Nicholas Kyriazi is a biomedical engineer in Pittsburgh. A collectivist strain in Western thought envisions society as an organism, with government as the head and the population as the body controlled by the head. This is certainly not what America’s Founding Fathers had in mind, however, and this way of constituting society has created many [...]
1Aug2001 | Nicholas Kyriazi | 1 comment | ContinuedHonesty at Last
Budget surpluses and a possible tax cut make people say funny things. Folks who never cared a fig about the national debt suddenly are fiscal hawks, and the guardians of the pretense that Social Security is a pension program now are willing to talk about it in other terms. It is a peculiarity of tax [...]
1Jul2001 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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