“The Tax Was Most Popular Before It Was Laid”
On this date in 1913, from the New York Times:
On this date in 1913, from the New York Times:
Nicolás Cachanosky, who recently completed his PhD at Suffolk University under Ben Powell (now at Tex
Matt Zwolinski, a libertarian political philosopher and the founder of the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, has a surprising proposal.
The 1920s was a period when price stabilization proposals a la Irving Fisher were influential in policy and central banking circles.
In 2009, Lee Ohanian published the article, “What—or Who—Started the Great Depression,
Murray Rothbard argued that the cause of the Great Depression was the result of Herbert Hoover’s New Deal policies which sought to keep wages