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Friday, January 25, 2008

The Goal Is Freedom: An Unstimulating Idea


A NEW article by Sheldon Richman


“It's like taking a bucket of water from the deep end of a pool and dumping it into the shallow end. Funny thing — the water in the shallow end doesn't get any deeper.” That's how George Mason University economist Russell Roberts describes the logic — rather, illogic — of the economic “stimulus” proposals that everyone and his uncle are proposing. If we needed further demonstration of the folly that is the American political-economic system, there it is. More . . .

A NEW article by Sheldon Richman



  • Sheldon Richman is the former editor of The Freeman and a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is the author of Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families and thousands of articles.