Big Government
Lawrence Lessig: Governments Always Get It Wrong
Well, after a couple of decades of battling copyright extensions, the famed cyberlawyer Lessig has detected the Real Problem: gove
Are Carbon Emissions the Cause of Global Warming?
But so far, the debate has focused on the natural-science question of whether global warming is actually occurring, and, if so, what its cause is. Here is where the popular understanding is very much in need of correction.
Conscription as an Omen
Robert Taft, champion of a non-interventionist foreign policy and leader of the Republican resistance to post-FDR foreign policy, gave a stirring s
Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class, by Robert H. Frank
Frank proposes instead a steeply progressive consumption tax that, at its upper reaches, is confiscatory. His plan exempts savings from tax altogether: the tax burden falls entirely on consumption.
The Federal Home Loan Banks to the Rescue!
For those who have been speculating on how the government might bail out participants in the collapsing U
All Hail Woodrow Wilson!
Woodrow Wilson’s speech on postwar reconversion, As printed in American Affairs, V7,
Solving the “Problem” of Free Riding
With the almost constant statist apologetics we hear from many government and academic economists, writes Ben O’Neill, it is hard to believe