Economics
Economics
Altruism: The Moral Root of the Financial Crisis
Richard M. Salsman February 20, 2009
Zeros in on the fundamental cause of the problem, showing that widespread acceptance of the morality of self-sacrifice necessitated the kinds of laws, regulations, and decisions that have driven the financial markets into the gutter.
Economics
America’s Unfree Market
Yaron Brook February 20, 2009
Demonstrates the actual nature of the allegedly free market that delivered the current mayhem.
Economics, Reviews
Review: Greenspan’s Bubbles, by William A. Fleckenstein with Frederick Sheehan
Joe Kroeger February 20, 2009
Joe Kroeger reviews Greenspan’s Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance at the Federal Reserve, by William A. Fleckenstein with Frederick Sheehan.
Economics, Reviews
Review: New Deal or Raw Deal?, by Burton Folsom Jr.
Eric Daniels November 20, 2008
Eric Daniels reviews New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America, by Burton Folsom Jr.
Economics
Bubble Boy: Alan Greenspan’s Rejection of Reason and Morality
Gus Van Horn November 20, 2008
Exposes Greenspan as anything but a principled capitalist whose free-market ideas somehow failed.
Economics, Politics & Rights
Net Neutrality: Toward a Stupid Internet
Raymond C. Niles November 20, 2008
Focuses on the principle of property rights as it applies to the Internet in the face of increasing calls for government controls of this, as yet, relatively free market.
Economics, Philosophy, Politics & Rights
Capitalism and the Moral High Ground
Craig Biddle November 20, 2008
Concretizes the selfishness-enabling nature of capitalism and shows why this feature makes it the only moral social system on earth.
Economics
Letters and Replies, Winter 2008–2009
Raymond C. Niles November 20, 2008
Raymond C. Niles replies to a letter about the California power grid.
Economics, Reviews
Review: The Tyranny of the Market, by Joel Waldfogel
Eric Daniels August 20, 2008
Eric Daniels reviews The Tyranny of the Market: Why You Can't Always Get What You Want, by Joel Waldfogel.
Economics, Reviews
Review: Nudge, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Eric Daniels August 20, 2008
Eric Daniels reviews Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein