By Steven Horwitz • Posted February 11, 2010 on The Freeman
In the last couple of decades, one of the most popular political slogans on the left, especially among feminists, has been: “The personal is the political.” For feminists the phrase is invoked to point out that the personal choices women make — for example, [...]
Posted by Steven Horwitz, Guest Blogger at 4:10 PM on 02/02/10 on the NBR Blog
HT to Steve Horwitz at the Coordination Problem Blog
Over the weekend, the White House released a report indicating that the stimulus program had directly funded about 600,000 jobs and indirectly “created or saved” a total of 1.5 to 2 million jobs. [...]
By Steve Horwitz: Posted on the Coordination Problem Blog Site.
This is from a 1934 Cobden Memorial lecture of Gustav Cassel’s entitled “From Protectionism through Planned Economy to Dictatorship”:
Planned economy will always tend to develop into Dictatorship…[because] experience has shown that representative bodies are unable to fulfill all the multitudinous functions connected with economic leadership without [...]
Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and I have grown to respect his intellect and the integrity with which he conducts himself in his profession. In an article, just posted on The Freeman, Professor Horwitz addresses the need for the defenders of freedom to stay on [...]
Dr. Israel Kirzner kicked off FEE’s Advanced Austrian Economics seminar with a terrific presentation on the history of Austrian Economics.
This is a excellent opportunity to learn from one of Ludwig von Mises’s student’s who carries the torch of the Austrian School of Economics. Dr. Steve Hortwiz, another Austrian School economist, says of Dr. [...]
By Steven Horwitz • The Freeman, April 2009 • Volume: 59 • Issue: 4
One of the most common objections to free markets is that they ignore ethical considerations. In particular, critics argue that there are many things we “ought” to do that they believe will make people’s lives better off. We ought to “redistribute” income [...]
Simple and clear analysis like Dr. Boettke’s excellent post, “Some Basic Economics of Public Policy,” [posted below] and that of fellow economist Dr. Steve Horwitz are the kinds of arguments that will help the average citizen see through the fog so prevalent in Washington, D.C. An excerpt from Dr. Horwitz’s post and the link [...]
