Volume 10, Number 2 (1992) No fledgling feeds the father bird, No chicken feeds the hen— No kitten mouses for the cat, This glory is for men. We are the Wisest, Strongest Race— Loud may our praise be sung! The only animal alive That lives upon its young. —Charlotte Perkins Gilman Here you are, a Jeffersonian Democrat, the
Almost anyone who was of age and living in the United States during the 1980s will remember that it was given the moniker of “Decade of Greed.” As the story went, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, the Republicans controlled the U.S. Senate for six years, and a “pro-business” administration permitted businesses— and especially Wall
This is part II of a two-part paper in which a critique is offered of the private right to free incorporation from a classical liberal or libertarian point of view. Volume 19, Number 4 (2005) van Eeghen, Piet-Hein. “The Corporation at Issue, Part II: A Critique of Robert Hesson’s In Defense of the Corporation and Proposed Conditions for Private
This paper investigates whether the government regulation of insider trading or insider trading laws can be effective. Volume 22, Number 1 (2011) Padilla, Alexandre. “Should the Government Regulate Insider Trading?” Journal of Libertarian Studies 22, No. 1 (2011):
Harvard professor of philosophy, John Rawls, can be credited with provoking the most recent angst over the issue of intergenerational equity. Rawls views intergenerational equity as a policy issue necessitating governmental intervention to manage “social saving and investment” for the benefit of the least advantaged generation. Volume 21, Number 4
Volume 17, No. 4 (Winter 2014) KEYWORDS: John Maynard Keynes, marginal efficiency of capital, net present value, interest rates, central banking JEL CLASSIFICATION: E12, E22, E52, In his recent article, Edward W. Fuller (2013) compared the Keynesian Marginal Efficiency of Capital approach with the Austrian Net Present Value approach. While his
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Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.