Congratulations to Ed Stringham and Tom Woods, two of three junior faculty winners of the 2002-2003 Olive W. Garvey Fellowships . The essay topic was this statement by Richard Cobden : “The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace and the spread of commerce and the diffusion of education than upon the labor of Cabinets or
From the June 2002 issue of the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (no. 158): Oliver Volckart No Utopia: Government Without Territorial Monopoly in Medieval Central Europe The paper examines the questions of how nonterritorial feudal governments in medieval central Europe emerged and what their tasks were, of how competition
The Washington Post reports that the 2002 Federal Register runs to 75,606 pages, up from 74,528 at the end of the Clinton Administration. Thank goodness the Bush Administration is “philosophically wedded to the idea of smaller government.” Posted by Peter G.
Debating the Socialist Calculation Debate: A Classroom Exercise ZENON X. ZYGMONT Western Oregon University - Division of Business & Economics http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=442620 Abstract: This paper describes a classroom exercise that introduces the Socialist Calculation Debate (SCD) to undergraduate economics students. The
The University of Missouri’s College of Business recently filled several endowed chairs. According to the college website, “Five of the endowed positions are funded through an estate gift made by Sherlock Hibbs, who graduated from the college in 1926. . . . His estate gift provided $5 million in support of three chairs and three professorships
The New York Times reminds us : “The Bush administration’s twin moves on Tuesday to ban the dietary supplement ephedra and the sale of meat from cows that appear to be sick on the way to the slaughterhouse underscores a simple White House maxim these days: with an election approaching, even a president who came to office assailing government
Car and Driver’s Brock Yates slams SUV critics like Fox’s Bill O’Reilly who “insist America’s transportation needs can be met by everyone toddling around in tiny subcompacts consuming eyedroplets of gasoline (or better yet, hydrogen or yogurt or cowpies, or whatever is the energy source du jour).” On the contrary, Yates observes, millions of
The Intellectual Conservative runs a brief piece on Frank Meyer’s In Defense of Freedom, quoting Rothbard, Brent Bozell, and Craig Schiller in response. (The author, Enrico Peppe, describes himself as a Fundamentalist-Georgist-Populist — talk about fusionism!)
Phil Roberts, _A Penny for the Governor, A Dollar for Uncle Sam: Income Taxation in Washington_. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002. xii + 198 pp. $35 (cloth), ISBN: 0-295-98251-9. Reviewed for EH.NET by Terri A. Sexton, Department of Economics, California State University, Sacramento. During the past year, virtually every state has
Published by EH.NET (April 2004) Mark Thornton and Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., _Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War_. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2004. xxix + 124 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN: 0-8420-2961-3; $65 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8420-2960-5. Reviewed for EH.NET by David G. Surdam. A fundamental axiom in show business
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