Recently added articles from Journal of Private Enterprise:
Housing prices and economic freedom.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Campbell, Noel D. ... Abstract The Economic Freedom Index of North America measures the impact of governmental institutions. The literature finds that economic freedom leads to higher incomes. Economic freedom is a geographically defined benefit, the value of which will be capitalized into real ...
Hayek on labor unions: economic and social consequences.(F. A. Hayek)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Baird, Charles W. ... Abstract While American unions have a low and declining market share, they remain very significant, especially in the political marketplace. That political influence makes it possible for unions to yield far more power in the private sector than their market share in that sector ...
Escaping poverty: foreign aid, private property, and economic development.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Leeson, Peter T. ... Abstract P. T. Bauer boldly conjectured two hypotheses about the process of escaping poverty. First, he argued that foreign aid not only fails to promote economic progress but may actually retard this process. Second, Bauer argued that private property rights are necessary and ...
The potential of satellites to control pollution from motor vehicles.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Christainsen, Gregory B. ... Abstract This paper argues that onboard diagnostic systems linked via vehicle transponders to satellites could provide the basis for a more efficient and potentially global approach to controlling pollution from motor vehicles. Motorists would be subject to multiple emissions ...
Monetary calculation and the extension of social cooperation into anonymity.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Horwitz, Steven ... Abstract Both economists and evolutionary psychologists have addressed recently the question of how humans come to trust anonymous others. However, the idea of monetary calculation, as articulated by Ludwig von Mises and other Austrian school economists, is missing from their ...
Economic science and the poverty of naturalism: C. S. Lewis's "argument from reason".(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Theroux, David J. ... Abstract Many of the sciences (including economics) have been dominated by a naturalist worldview that generally assumes that the universe and life are purposeless and that mankind is simply a more complex, material version of everything else in the natural world. The renowned ...
Tattoo prohibition behind bars: the case for repeal.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; D'Amico, Daniel J. ... Abstract Performing or receiving tattoos is forbidden in American prisons. What are the intentions behind this prohibition? Does the policy meet its intentions? Does it promote the broader ends of prison institutions: to protect justice, provide efficient correctional services, ...
On the monopoly of rule enforcement.(Essay)
Mar 22, 2008; de Jasay, Anthony ... I. Episodes A man travelling at night in the New York subway is menacingly surrounded by five young men brandishing long screwdrivers. He shoots and wounds all five, one grievously. His plea of self-defense is vitiated by his disproportionate use of force. Convicted and ...
Economics works! Experiments in high school classrooms.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Jackstadt, Stephen L. ... Abstract Economic experiments are a unique form of active learning. Students apply the scientific method by testing hypotheses and discovering for themselves how markets work. The authors conducted teacher training courses in experimental economics over a three-year period and ...
Teaching private enterprise through tunes: an abecedarium of music for economists.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Hall, Joshua C. ... Abstract Over the past decade, a number of non-traditional approaches have emerged for teaching introductory economics beyond chalk and talk lectures. This note highlights two music-related websites for economic educators. The first uses animations to present music in class. The ...
Can students learn economics in U.S. history?(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; Niederjohn, M. Scott ... Abstract Economic educators are divided into two main camps regarding economics in grades K-12. One group advocates that economics should be infused into related subjects. The second advocates that economics should be taught as a stand-alone course. This study focused on ...