Freeman back issues from March 2004:
How Did We Get Here?
Mar 01, 2004; ... The late Alabama governor George Wallace once said, "There's not a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats." Both Republicans and Democrats agree on taking our money. Where they differ is what to spend it on. A Democrat like Senator Edward Kennedy agrees to take our earnings ...
Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise
Mar 01, 2004; ... Capitalism and Commerce: Conceptual Foundations of Free Enterprise by Edward W. Younkins Lexington Books * 2002 * 384 pages * $80.00 hardcover; $26.95 paperback (Rowman and Littlefield) As readers of this publication are likely to be well aware, capitalism and commerce aren't very ...
Deficits Do Matter
Mar 01, 2004; ... Editor's Note: With the federal deficit expected to reach $500 billion or more this fiscal year, Congress on a spending binge unequalled in recent times, and the President without a veto pen, it's a good time to revisit this FEE Timely Classic on budget deficits. Politicians and ...
Watering the Tree
Mar 01, 2004; ... Though my father is approaching 80 and is no longer able to do as much outdoors, a legacy of his retirement years is the orchard behind my childhood home. After my dad ended his trucking career, he took to heart an activity I would not previously have supposed to be of interest to him. His ...
The New World of Blogs
Mar 01, 2004; ... Imagine a costless or very cheap printing press in the hands of each and every writer. Imagine a world where opinion and commentary bypass the elites and are unregulated by government. Well, we have entered this new world in the last few years. These virtual-reality printing presses, called ...
Free Trade Today
Mar 01, 2004; ... Free Trade Today by Jagdish Bhagwati Princeton University Press * 2002 * 128 pages * $35.00 hardcover; $14.95 paperback In no other area is the gulf of opinion between economists and the general public wider than in the field of free trade. While economists nearly unanimously embrace the ...
Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics
Mar 01, 2004; ... Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics by Kenneth R. Hoover Rowman and Littlefield * 2003 * 328 pages * $75.00 hardcover; $27.95 paperback Why do people hold the views that they do, including and especially their political and ideological ...
The Defense of Our Civilization Against Intellectual Error
Mar 01, 2004; ... I believe that what the Foundation for Economic Education, with Eeonard Read at its head, and all his co-fighters and friends are committed to is nothing more nor less than the defense of our civilization against intellectual error. I do not mean this as the kind of high-flown phrase ...
Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium
Mar 01, 2004; ... Nothing Is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium by Robert J. Barro MIT Press * 2002 * 184 pages * $27.95 hardcover; $16.95 paperback Considering the vast number of economists trained in leftist universities and fed socialist soup, it's refreshing to encounter some who found ...
CAPITAL LETTERS
Mar 01, 2004; ... Don't Let the Court Off the Hook To the Editor: As a former wartime draftee-the Korean War-I'm of two minds re Aeon J. Skoble's "Neither Slavery Nor Involuntary Servitude" piece in your September issue ("It just Ain't So!). No question, he did a very good job of picking apart the ...
Truman's Attempt to Seize the Steel Industry
Mar 01, 2004; ... In U.S. history many of the most drastic incursions on private property rights have sprung from the conjunction of a threatened work stoppage, owing to a union-management dispute, and the government's desire to expedite a war-production program. Such a conjunction underlay the government's ...
Self-Ownership or Suicide Prevention?
Mar 01, 2004; ... The core libertarian principle of self-ownership implies that we have a right to commit suicide: the state has no right to forcibly prevent us from killing ourselves. The core psychiatric practice of suicide prevention implies that we have no right to kill ourselves: the state-through ...
Westerns and Property Rights
Mar 01, 2004; ... Several new westerns opened at the box office last fall, including Kevin Costner's Open Range, costarring Robert Duvall. The story was a familiar one, with a twist: Costner's Charlie Waite and Duvall's "Boss" Spearman are cowboys trailing a herd north through Montana Territory. They run afoul of ...
Let Us Not Speak Falsely Now
Mar 01, 2004; ... One of the most difficult issues facing those arguing for a free society is the bias built into the way we speak. When the very words people use create a prejudice in favor of government intervention, supporters of freedom must first alert their audience to this pernicious influence, and only ...
A Museum You Don't Want To Miss
Mar 01, 2004; ... More than 150 years ago Karl Marx predicted that communism was inevitable. History, he claimed, was marching inexorably toward a communist paradise. In hindsight it would appear that if anything about communism was inevitable, it was that it would sooner or later be relegated to the status of ...
The Awesome Powers of Government
Mar 01, 2004; ... Government possesses far more mechanisms that influence actions in the private sector than most people realize. The typical business firm faces an impressive array of government powers. Government as Paymaster. The oldest policy tool available to government is to hire people and put them ...
The Collectivist Paradox
Mar 01, 2004; ... Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, ...
Decency Requires a Minimum-Wage Law? It Just Ain't So!
Mar 01, 2004; ... The libertarian cliche that "at least the Republicans are right on economic policies" suffered another setback on the August 11, 2003, Los Angeles Times op-ed page, where Republican Douglas MacKinnon argues that anyone who cares about the poor should be ashamed of the failure of the Senate to ...
F. A. Hayek and The Road to Serfdom: A Sixtieth-Anniversary Appreciation
Mar 01, 2004; ... Sixty years ago this month, in March 1944, The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek was first published in Great Britain. For six decades it has continued to challenge and influence the political-economic landscape of the world. Hayek delivered an ominous warning that political trends in the Western ...