Articles in the The Freeman Category
Is the Name Capitalism Worth Keeping?
Posted in The Freeman on 31 December 2009
Stats: 0 views and No Comments Faced with a choice between a system whose name suggests that it serves the interests of only a small fraction of the already wealthy and powerful and one whose name suggests it will serve the interests of society as a whole, which would you find more attractive?
Posted in The Freeman on 31 December 2009
Stats: 0 views and No Comments Faced with a choice between a system whose name suggests that it serves the interests of only a small fraction of the already wealthy and powerful and one whose name suggests it will serve the interests of society as a whole, which would you find more attractive?
December Freeman is Now Available
Posted in The Freeman on 19 November 2009
Stats: 0 views and No Comments Barack Obama changed the rules when he intervened in the bankruptcies of GM and Chysler. There's no telling what the consequences will be for the economy. Also in this issue: A Nobel Prize we can rejoice over, a clunker of a government program, and a depression you never heard of.
Posted in The Freeman on 19 November 2009
Stats: 0 views and No Comments Barack Obama changed the rules when he intervened in the bankruptcies of GM and Chysler. There's no telling what the consequences will be for the economy. Also in this issue: A Nobel Prize we can rejoice over, a clunker of a government program, and a depression you never heard of.
November 2009
Posted in The Freeman on 26 October 2009
Stats: 0 views and No Comments Only the free market can rid health care of perverse incentives and rising costs. Also in this issue: the importance of habeas corpus, government's secret growth, and the value of hedge funds.
Posted in The Freeman on 26 October 2009
Stats: 0 views and No Comments Only the free market can rid health care of perverse incentives and rising costs. Also in this issue: the importance of habeas corpus, government's secret growth, and the value of hedge funds.
“I, Pencil” Revisited
Posted in The Freeman, The Goal Is Freedom on 16 January 2009
Stats: 103 views and 7 Comments Leonard Read's classic essay, "I, Pencil," which is now 50 years old, is justly celebrated as the best short introduction to the division of labor and undesigned order ever written. Read saw an "extraordinary miracle ... [in the] the configuration of creative human energies—millions of tiny know-hows configurating naturally and ...
Posted in The Freeman, The Goal Is Freedom on 16 January 2009
Stats: 103 views and 7 Comments Leonard Read's classic essay, "I, Pencil," which is now 50 years old, is justly celebrated as the best short introduction to the division of labor and undesigned order ever written. Read saw an "extraordinary miracle ... [in the] the configuration of creative human energies—millions of tiny know-hows configurating naturally and ...
News Flash: FDR Didn’t Fix The Economy!
Posted in The Freeman, The Goal Is Freedom on 15 December 2008
Stats: 173 views and 6 Comments Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and "In brief," and author of "Fascism" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. TGIF appears Fridays. Comments welcome at "Anything Peaceful." The New Deal did not end the Great Depression. This statement will come as no shock to FEE supporters, but ...
Posted in The Freeman, The Goal Is Freedom on 15 December 2008
Stats: 173 views and 6 Comments Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and "In brief," and author of "Fascism" in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. TGIF appears Fridays. Comments welcome at "Anything Peaceful." The New Deal did not end the Great Depression. This statement will come as no shock to FEE supporters, but ...
Why On Earth Do We Have a Student Loan Crisis?
Posted in The Freeman on 2 December 2008
Stats: 9 views and 1 Comment Amid all our other crises, you may have missed the student loan crisis. It isn’t nearly so life-threatening as global warming, nor as financially alarming as the subprime-mortgage collapse, but it does have a lot of politicians clamoring that the country needs them to prevent serious harm. That’s because—for reasons ...
Posted in The Freeman on 2 December 2008
Stats: 9 views and 1 Comment Amid all our other crises, you may have missed the student loan crisis. It isn’t nearly so life-threatening as global warming, nor as financially alarming as the subprime-mortgage collapse, but it does have a lot of politicians clamoring that the country needs them to prevent serious harm. That’s because—for reasons ...
Freedom Works: The Case of Hong Kong
Posted in The Freeman on 2 December 2008
Stats: 10 views and No Comments Hong Kong has an impressive reputation for economic freedom and classical-liberal virtues. In a series of articles, Milton Friedman used Hong Kong to show how the power of free markets combined with little else can create wealth, pointing out that its per-capita income rose from 28 percent of Britain’s in ...
Posted in The Freeman on 2 December 2008
Stats: 10 views and No Comments Hong Kong has an impressive reputation for economic freedom and classical-liberal virtues. In a series of articles, Milton Friedman used Hong Kong to show how the power of free markets combined with little else can create wealth, pointing out that its per-capita income rose from 28 percent of Britain’s in ...
Albert Jay Nock and Alternative History
Posted in The Freeman on 2 December 2008
Stats: 8 views and No Comments Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) was a leading ideologist of the Old Right, a loose collection of individualist intellectuals, journalists, and a few politicians who opposed the growth of government in the first half of the twentieth century. Nock’s writing appeared in the Nation, the original Freeman (1920–1924), which he founded ...
Posted in The Freeman on 2 December 2008
Stats: 8 views and No Comments Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) was a leading ideologist of the Old Right, a loose collection of individualist intellectuals, journalists, and a few politicians who opposed the growth of government in the first half of the twentieth century. Nock’s writing appeared in the Nation, the original Freeman (1920–1924), which he founded ...
A Million terrorists?
Posted in The Freeman on 2 December 2008
Stats: 2 views and No Comments In July the federal government added the millionth name to its “Terrorism Watch List”—and it may have been yours. Comprising just 16 names on September 11, 2001, this modern blacklist now functions as a catchall and cover for federal intelligence agencies. Since no one wants to be accused of overlooking a ...
Posted in The Freeman on 2 December 2008
Stats: 2 views and No Comments In July the federal government added the millionth name to its “Terrorism Watch List”—and it may have been yours. Comprising just 16 names on September 11, 2001, this modern blacklist now functions as a catchall and cover for federal intelligence agencies. Since no one wants to be accused of overlooking a ...
November 2008
Posted in Contents on 1 December 2008
Stats: 2 views and No Comments Features * A Million Terrorists? by Becky Akers * Albert Jay Nock and Alternative History by Joseph R. Stromberg * Freedom Works: The Case of Hong Kong by Andrew P. Morriss * Gas Prices: The Latest Excuse to Reengineer Society by Steven Greenhut * U.S. Agricultural Programs: Who Pays? by E. C. Pasour, Jr. * Why ...
Posted in Contents on 1 December 2008
Stats: 2 views and No Comments Features * A Million Terrorists? by Becky Akers * Albert Jay Nock and Alternative History by Joseph R. Stromberg * Freedom Works: The Case of Hong Kong by Andrew P. Morriss * Gas Prices: The Latest Excuse to Reengineer Society by Steven Greenhut * U.S. Agricultural Programs: Who Pays? by E. C. Pasour, Jr. * Why ...
