| Type | Title | Author | Date |
| FrontReport | Robin Hood and the Robber Congress | Edward Hudgins | 4/18/2005 |
| Description: The Estate Tax and the morality of the producer. |
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| Op-ed | Tax Wars | Edward Hudgins | 4/14/2005 |
| Description: As we rush to meet the April 15 deadline to file our tax returns, many fail to realize those 1040 forms do more than just make us all personally poorer. The tax code is a principal instrument that creates and sustains the politicized, partisan, uncivil, contentious conflict society so many bemoan. |
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| Article | Eliot Spitzer: Ayatollah General | Roger Donway | 4/1/2005 |
| Description: Since becoming the attorney general of New York, Eliot Spitzer has conducted an aggressive campaign against the financial industry, restructuring the business landscape in accordance with his moral vision, as though he were a religious dictator suddenly transplanted from the Middle East. |
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| Article | The History, Economics, and Philosophy of Social Security | David Kelley | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: The problem with Social Security is the blithe indifference to economic reality, on the assumption that "we're all in this together." And the problem with that appeal to solidarity as a moral premise is that it encourages such indifference. |
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| Article | The Hidden Danger of Social Security Privatization | Frank Bubb | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: Most current proposals for reforming Social Security provide that investment choices would be limited to diversified funds that invest in a broad range of stocks, bonds, or both. Could such personal retirement accounts become a vehicle for imposing more government control over business? |
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| Article | Social Security, Autonomy, and Independence | Edward Hudgins | 3/1/2005 |
| Description: The debate over reforming Social Security reflects a deeper battle for the soul of the Republic. It pits those who would take the first steps in restoring the morality needed to sustain a free society against those who have undermined that ethos. |
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| Miscellaneous | November, 2004 Soundings | | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Educational atrocities, the cost of government regulation, Mexican immigration, environmentalism, health-care cost incentives. |
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| Article | Demonize, Then Pulverize | Sam Kazman | 11/1/2004 |
| Description: Ten years ago, a new type of lawsuit was filed against the tobacco industry. It began by making the industry into a national pariah and then demanding huge payments in compensation for the expenses it had supposedly thrust upon the U.S. states. That pattern is quickly becoming the model for many other lawsuits |
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| Op-ed | How Price Gouging Laws Make Hurricanes Worse | Frank Bubb | 10/4/2004 |
| Description: Laws against price gouging are supposed to help the victims of hurricanes. In fact, they make shortages worse and encourage individuals to evade the need for them to take precautions, expecting that governments will help them in their time of need. Such laws should be repealed! |
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| Center News | Hudgins Communicates Ethics | | 10/1/2004 |
| Description: Ed Hudgins speaks at Atlas Economic Conference |
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| Op-ed | Obstruction of Freedom | Edward Hudgins | 9/10/2004 |
| Description: Visionary banker Frank Quattrone has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison, allegedly for obstruction of justice, even though the government never indicted him for any crime whose prosecution he might have been obstructing. This case and Martha Stewart's open the floodgates for government assaults on those who have done nothing but arouse the fury of muckrakers and the envy of egalitarians. Americans should understand that a government powerful enough to quash a Frank Quattrone on such a bogus charge can crush any of us. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: Atlas Chased | Edward Hudgins | 8/6/2004 |
| Description: The United Nations' plan for global taxation is an attempt to chase productive individuals seeking to evade looting governments anywhere they go. America should stand strong against this contemptible policy. |
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| Center News | Sightings July/August 2004 | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Dr. Brian Simpson will present courses in economics based on the works of Ayn Rand and George Reisman. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Capitalists | | 7/1/2004 |
| Description: Suggested Readings: Capitalists, Rockefeller, Gates, etc... |
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| Center News | Hudgins rips taxes | | 5/1/2004 |
| Description: Edward Hudgins, director of TOC's Washington office, was active recently in his opposition to the current tax system. |
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| Review | Creeping Collectivism Corrupts a Good Economist | David Henderson | 3/1/2004 |
| Description: Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Roaring Nineties, used to write intelligently on such subjects as taxation and indeed won the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics. Unfortunately, a collectivist morality now infects his work, prompting him to say some remarkably silly things. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, December 2003 | | 12/1/2003 |
| Description: Nonprofits and minimum wage; Scandinavia Pro-business?; Ashtray inspectors; Where Europeans see threats to world peace. |
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| FrontReport | Report from the Front: How would Jesus tax? | Edward Hudgins | 6/11/2003 |
| Description: Using Christianity to justify tax increases. |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Free-Market Solutions | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Bountiful Harvest: Technology, Food Safety, and the Environment
By Thomas R. DeGregori; Cutting Green Tape: Toxic Pollutants, Environmental Regulation, and the Law
Edited by Richard L. Stroup and Roger E. Meiners; American Health Care: Government, Market Processes, and the Public Interest Edited by Roger D. Feldman; Mail [at] the Millenium: Will the Postal Service Go Private?
Edited by Edward Hudgins |
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| Interview | Power to the Purchasers! | | 5/31/2003 |
| Description: Fran Smith's Consumer Alert is a free-market group that believes consumers will benefit more from a market economy than from government regulation. |
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| Op-ed | Tax Policy Is Moral Policy | Edward Hudgins | 4/14/2003 |
| Description: Taxation is primarily a moral issue. Taxes are supposed to pay the costs of protecting the citizens’ lives, liberties and property. But most tax funds are wealth transfers that amount government expropriation rather than protection of rights. The tax system itself immorally punishes the most productive members of society. |
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| Commentary | Is John Galt Venezuelan? | Thor Halvorssen | 2/28/2003 |
| Description: In January, nearly 90 percent of Venezuelan workers were refusing to participate in the economy that sustains the tyranny of Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez. In effect, the strikers in Venezuela have provided an answer to the question that prompted Ayn Rand to write Atlas Shrugged: What would happen if a society's productive members ceased to subsidize their own enslavement? |
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| Miscellaneous | Suggested Readings: Society and Assistance | | 6/30/2002 |
| Description: Losing Ground, Charles Murray; Poverty and Compassion, Gertrude Himmelfarb; From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State, David Beito; Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville. |
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| Center News | Ed Hudgins: Derail Amtrak | | 4/30/2002 |
| Description: Hudgins spoke to congressional staffers about Amtrak reform. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, March 2002 | | 3/31/2002 |
| Description: Muslim countries and the lack of freedom, liberal Ivy League professors, Economic Freedom, Top taxpayers pay the most tax. |
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| Commentary | Enron's Lessons for Capitalism | William Thomas | 3/21/2002 |
| Description: The multiple failures brought to light by Enron’s collapse offer a salutary lesson to pro-capitalists: free markets do not automatically produce justice, nobility, excellence. |
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| Op-ed | Enron: It's OUR Problem | William Thomas | 2/27/2002 |
| Description: The collapse of Enron is a problem that the market has to deal with, and we are the market. |
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| Commentary | The Cipro Looters | William Thomas | 11/12/2001 |
| Description: William Thomas tells the story of the looting of drug maker Bayer for its anthrax fighting antibiotic drug, Cipro. |
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| Op-ed | Nobel Prize in Economics | Donald Cooper | 10/18/2001 |
| Description: Nobel Winners Good for Economics, Bad for Public Policy
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| Commentary | Updates on July/August Commentaries | | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: Following up on Navigator's stories about the function of the Internet in authoritarian countries; and the causes of the California electricity crisis. |
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| Article | Automobility and Freedom | Sam Kazman | 9/1/2001 |
| Description: The car has dramatically enhanced our ability to realize the fundamental human attribute of self-directed action. As a consequence, writes, Sam Kazman, it has also opened new roads to liberty, knowledge, and economic opportunity. |
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| Commentary | 'Living Wages' Are Anti-Life | Damian Moskovitz | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The demand by Harvard University students that their university provide a "living wage" for the school's support staff are grounded in a fundamentally anti-life philosophy, reports TOC intern and recent Harvard graduate Damian Moskovitz. |
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| Commentary | Why Not the Best? | Donald Cooper | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's capping of wholesale prices in the west was not utterly mindless—the action was grounded in current economic theory. But a better solution was, and still is, achievable, says Navigator's assistant editor, Donald Cooper. |
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| Review | The Essence of Hayek | Donald Cooper | 7/1/2001 |
| Description: The Essence of Hayek offers a representative selection of the economist's work. |
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| Letters | Letters: Lands of Liberty | | 6/14/2001 |
| Description: A collection of letters in response to the annual Lands of Liberty articles. |
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| Article | The Wealth and Social Health of America | Herbert Grubel | 6/1/2001 |
| Description: Stephen Moore and Julian Simon's new book, It's Getting Better All the Time, asserts that living conditions in America are continually imporving. Marc and Maria-Louise Miringoff present evidence to the contrary in The Social Health of the Nation. Herbert Grubel reviews both, and expains how America is really doing. |
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| Op-ed | Why not the Best? Op-ed | Donald Cooper | 5/30/2001 |
| Description: California energy solutions are all second best solutions.
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| Commentary | Misbehavioral Economics? | Donald Cooper | 5/1/2001 |
| Description: A new field of economics, “behavioral economics,” is beginning to take hold, reports Navigator’s assistant editor, Donald Cooper. Though research in this field will help expand our understanding of economic science, many unintended political consequences may also arise from it. |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 2001 | Roger Donway | 4/1/2001 |
| Description: Navigator’s fourth annual survey of world freedom looks at the current state of liberty in 192 countries. Along the way, it asks some questions that may help libertarians analyse the condition of freedom in their own countries: |
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| Review | The Morality of Capitalism | Patrick Stephens | 3/1/2001 |
| Description: The newest critique of capitalism does not challenge its effectiveness, says TOC's manager of current affairs. It acknowledges that capitalism is better than any other system at creating wealth, eradicating poverty, and developing technology. But, the new critique asks, is wealth, mass affluence, and technology really such good things? |
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| Interview | The Roots of the Great Depression | | 1/1/2001 |
| Description: Many economists and political scientists have worked to present an objective view of the causes of the Great Depression. In this interview, noted scholar Richard Timberlake explores the way in which government helped cause and prolong the Depression by manipulating the money supply. |
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| Interview | The Restoration of Market Thinking | | 10/1/2000 |
| Description: An interview with John L. Kelley, author of Bringing the Market Back In, is a professor of history at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. |
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| Interview | The New Deal's War against Economic Recovery | | 7/1/2000 |
| Description: Interview with Gary Dean Best about the New Deal and economics. |
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| Commentary | Markets or Morals? July/August 2000 | Roger Donway | 7/1/2000 |
| Description: Continuation of the debate: Which is more fundamental: markets or morals? |
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| Article | Is Democracy Good for Economic Growth? | Roger Donway | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: A sidebar to the Lands of Liberty 2000. |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 2000 | Roger Donway | 4/1/2000 |
| Description: Navigator's third annual survey of world freedom, and lack thereof. |
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| Review | Property, Liberty, Prosperity | Roger Donway | 6/1/1999 |
| Description: A review-essay of four recent works on property elucidate the place that property has held in the fields of philosophy, politics, and economics. |
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| Commentary | Markets or Morals? | Roger Donway | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Which is more fundamental: markets or morals? |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 1999 | Roger Donway | 4/1/1999 |
| Description: Navigator's second annual survey of world freedom. Using Freedom House's 1997-1998 report on civil liberties and political rights (democracy), editor Roger Donway names the names of those who have (a relative degree of) freedom and those who do not. Along the way, he offers some speculations about why nations tend to cluster toward the extremes in the rankings of political freedom and toward the middle in the ranking of civil liberties. |
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| Review | What Works against the Welfare State? | James Payne | 3/1/1999 |
| Description: A review of A Life of One's Own: Individual Rights and the Welfare State by David Kelley. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, November 1998 | | 11/1/1998 |
| Description: Taxi discounts limited, English versus American policing, Kantian morality and Christianity, Big Business: the persecuted minority. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, October 1998 | | 10/1/1998 |
| Description: Fideism, Welfare, Russia not capitalist, Hong Kong under China |
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| Excerpt | Antipodean Altruism | Lindsay Perigo | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: An excerpt from Lindsay Perigo's talk to the 1997 Summer Seminar where he criticizes accounts of libertarian advances in New Zealand. |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, June 1998 | | 6/1/1998 |
| Description: Kaczunski at Harvard; Energy and Oil; Liberty; Welfare reform |
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| Miscellaneous | Soundings, May 1998 | | 5/1/1998 |
| Description: Alan Greenspan; GOP undercuts capitalism; poor research in social sciences; The art of smearing business |
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| Article | Lands of Liberty 1998 | Roger Donway | 4/1/1998 |
| Description: A consideration of surveys by Freedom House and the Fraser Institute on the relative degrees of democracy, civil rights, and economic liberty throughout the world. |
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| Review | Making Known the Capitalist Ideal | David Henderson | 6/1/1997 |
| Description: A review of Capitalism by George Reisman |
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| Audio | Antitrust vs. Capitalism | David Mayer | |
Description: Audio Excerpt. This lecture traces the premises of antitrust law to principles that are feudal, monarchical, and paternalistic—and inapplicable to American society.
Buy the audiotape at The Objectivism Store |
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