Greenspan Protesteth Too Much
…the American worker. He makes no apology for being a free trader just as nearly all economists make no apology for being free traders. Is free trade an economic concept?…
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James Galbraith on being progressive
…minimum wages, and a strong welfare state. But they also are highly open. They practice free trade. Business there is free to import, export, and outsource. Business there is free…
Nouriel Roubini v. the Free-Lunch Supply-Siders
…to the 1964-65 recovery. And the free-lunch crowd tends to leave off the 1966 credit crunch even though the Keynesian CEA was warning President Johnson in December 1965 that fiscal…
Social Security: Luskin Undermines the Free Lunch Spin
The disinformation on the alleged free lunch from privatization continues. Donald Luskin is asking folks to read this piece by Amy Menefee. She tries to claim some sort of leftie…
…the aforementioned basic freedoms one by one we can easily see that most of the points are pretty uncontroversial. Free movement of goods and services or the freedom to invest…
The Kosher Butcher Who Was Not a Person Until He Incorporated Himself*
…of the Obama administration is really a three-fer. How exciting! It combines–conflates, actually–First Amendment religious-freedom rights and a statute called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (I’ll leave the…
Denmark isn’t a middle-class, capitalist, entrepreneurial country? Because it has universal healthcare, free college, subsidized day care, and guaranteed family and medical leave? Really, Secretary Clinton? Really?
…a middle-class, capitalist, entrepreneurial country? And that that’s because it has universal healthcare, free college, subsidized day care, and guaranteed family and medical leave? That struck me as a major…
Millennials like socialism — until they get jobs. Or until a pollster tells them that it would mean tax increases but doesn’t tell them, for example, that the tax increases would replace healthcare insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses. And doesn’t tell them that “more government services” means something other than, say, trash collection twice a week instead of once a week.
…her part, closed her op-ed piece with this: Millennials like free markets, and most already accept that free markets have done more to lift the world out of poverty than…
Free Speech, Safety and the Triumph of Neoliberalism
Free Speech, Safety and the Triumph of Neoliberalism I’m reading another article about debates over free speech on campus, this time at Williams College, an elite school in the northwestern…
Reichtum ist verfügbare Zeit und nichts weiter
…associati. (In English): Indeed, for Marx, free time “for the free mental and social activity of individuals” by no means coincides simply with the reduction of the “working day”. He presupposes the…