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Recommended Articles, Books, and Websites on Environmental Policy
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Zeb Frye | Monday, November 2, 2009The following resources are excellent for research and background information on Environmental Policy! -
The Beth A. Hoffman Memorial Scholarship Fund
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FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, December 4, 2008For decades our esteemed colleague Beth A. Hoffman, who passed away suddenly December 1, was intimately involved in FEE's popular student summer seminars. Few students left a seminar without getting to know Beth and deeply appreciating her thoughtfulness and help. From the planning stages to the actual event, Beth's imprint on our summer programs has been huge and indelible.
We wish to honor her in a way that speaks to her first love — reaching young minds for liberty — and does so for many years to come. Accordingly, and with the approval of her husband, Peter, and son, Ted, we are pleased to announce the Beth Hoffman Memorial Scholarship Fund. This fund will offer full and half scholarships to students from all over the world to attend our summer seminars. More…
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Who Needs Evidence?
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Sheldon Richman | Saturday, October 25, 2008Around the corner from FEE's offices, on Main Street in Irvington, N.Y., there's a life-size statue of Rip Van Winkle awakening from his 20-year slumber. After reading Jacob Weisberg's Newsweek and Slate columns this week, I feel as though I must have been asleep for an equally long time. According to Weisberg, editor in chief of Slate, the financial turmoil taking place worldwide is the fault of . . . libertarians. That must mean libertarians have been in a position to repeal generations of deep-seated government intervention in the financial and related industries, including the Federal Reserve system. That would have taken a long time, yet I don't recall reading that a libertarian revolution occurred in the United States. Surely it would have been in the newspapers. Hence, I must conclude that I, like old Rip, was slumbering all those years. I missed the revolution! It's the only possible explanation. Unless Weisberg is wrong. More . . .A NEW article by Sheldon Richman
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Bailing Out Statism
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Sheldon Richman | Friday, September 12, 2008The key to understanding the saga of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — the newly nationalized twin government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that dominate home financing — is this: They were created — intentionally — to distort the housing and mortgage markets. That is, government planners were not content to let voluntary exchange and spontaneous market forces […] -
Those Too-Consistent Libertarians
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Sheldon Richman | Friday, January 18, 2008The writer Michael Kinsley is very intelligent. He is also very glib, and his glibness often gets in the way of his intelligence. The expression “too clever by half” seems to have been coined for him. This is most obvious when he writes about the libertarian philosophy, as he did recently for the Washington Post website. More . . .A NEW article by Sheldon Richman
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The Goal Is Freedom: Those Too-Consistent Libertarians
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Sheldon Richman |The writer Michael Kinsley is very intelligent. He is also very glib, and his glibness often gets in the way of his intelligence. The expression “too clever by half” seems to have been coined for him. This is most obvious when he writes about the libertarian philosophy, as he did recently for the Washington Post website. More . . .A NEW article by Sheldon Richman
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Paul Krugman, Doctor of (Bad) Economics
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Sheldon Richman | Friday, January 4, 2008Paul Krugman, the New York Times op-ed writer, has a Ph.D. in economics. Those three magic letters give him an air of authority, as if they represent a valuable accomplishment, yet somehow he manages to consistently give bad economic advice in his twice-weekly column. Go figure.
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Real Liberalism and the Law of Nature
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Sheldon Richman | Friday, August 10, 2007Is government the source of our rights? I fear that today many people would say yes. Not infrequently it is said that the government or the Constitution grants us freedom of speech or press or the right to own property. This offends the natural-law tradition that was essential to the genesis of classical liberalism (“liberalism”) and the vital institutions it spawned. While some prominent early liberals sought to overthrow natural law in favor of the seemingly more-scientific utilitarianism, the heart and soul of liberalism is — and remains — the natural law. The philosophy would be impoverished without it. More . . .A NEW article by Sheldon Richman -
No Substitute for History
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Sheldon Richman | Friday, August 3, 2007The great economist Ludwig von Mises showed that economics can be deduced from the axiom that human beings act: individuals consciously select ends and apply scarce means to achieve them. By examining the logical implications of that undeniable fact, one can come to understand the concepts value, cost, time preference, supply, demand, money, price, profit, interest, and so on. In light of this, it is noteworthy that Mises was also an accomplished historian. And more than that, he was an important historiographer; that is, he was interested in the why and how of history. This theorist who is so identified with the a priori method in economics also believed that a knowledge of history and its methods was indispensable to understanding the world. More . . .A NEW article by Sheldon Richman
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The Goal Is Freedom: Laissez-Faire Anti-Imperialism
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Sheldon Richman | Friday, July 27, 2007[E]xpansion and imperialism are at war with the best traditions, principles, and interests of the American people, and that they will plunge us into a network of difficult problems and political perils, which we might have avoided, while they offer us no corresponding advantage in return.
These might be the sentiments of a contemporary left-wing intellectual whose notion of America's traditions, principles, and interests would differ markedly from those held by advocates of the freedom philosophy. But they're not. They were written 108 years ago by William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), who, if he gets any attention at all, is usually castigated for his evolutionary (Social Darwinist) and laissez-faire views. Sumner, a founder of American sociology and a distinguished professor at Yale University, was an uncompromising champion of economic freedom, unfettered international trade, individual liberty, and limited government. It is fair to say that in his time he was the best-known American exponent of individualist, classical-liberal ideas. More . . .
A NEW article by Sheldon Richman