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Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism : Controversial Essays.
Title:
Liberty Versus the Tyranny of Socialism : Controversial Essays.
Author:
Williams, Walter E.
ISBN:
9780817949136
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (378 pages)
Series:
Hoover Inst Press Publication
Contents:
Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Education -- A Donor with Backbone -- The Shame of Higher Education -- Murder at VPI -- Academic Cesspools -- Academic Cesspools II -- Academic Slums -- Indoctrination of Our Youth -- What's With GMU? -- Who's to Blame? -- College Stupidity -- Are Academic Elites Communists? -- Anti-Intellectualism among the Academic Elite -- Education Ineptitude -- Education Ineptitude II -- Believe It or Not -- School Violence Toleration -- Higher Education in Decline -- Higher Education in Decline II -- What's Wrong with Education? -- Fiddling whilst Rome Burns -- Environment and Health -- Busybodies or Tyrants? -- Global Warming Heresy -- Trans Fat Ban -- Fearmongering -- Do We Want Socialized Medicine? -- Phony Science and Public Policy -- FDA: Friend or Foe? -- Health Care: Government vs. Private -- Deadly Environmentalists -- Global Warming Hysteria -- Silencing Dissent -- Do We Want This? -- Destructive Western Policy -- Envirobamboozled -- Is This the America We Want? -- Weak-Kneed Corporate CEOs -- Killing People -- They're Coming after You -- Government -- Competition or Monopoly -- Stupid, Ignorant or Biased? -- Congressional Constitutional Contempt -- Bitter Partisan Politics -- Attacking Lobbyists Wrong Battle -- Is There a Federal Deficit? -- Click It or Ticket -- The Slippery Slope -- The Pretense of Knowledge -- Why We Love Government -- The FairTax Book -- Are We a Republic or a Democracy? -- Not Yours to Give -- Social Security Deceit -- Stupid Airport Security -- Stupid Airport Security II -- Stupid Airport Security III -- Is It Permissible? -- Congressional Miracles -- Minimum Gasoline Prices -- Dangers of No Tax Liability -- National Sales Tax -- Income -- Should We Save Jobs? -- The Tempermental Minimum Wage -- Economists on the Loose.

Are the Poor Getting Poorer? -- Income Mobility -- The Poverty Hype -- Minimum Wage, Maximum Folly -- Are CEOs Overpaid? -- How Not to Be Poor -- Dead-End Jobs -- Income Inequality -- From Whence Income? -- The Morality of Markets -- The Politics of Envy -- International -- Goodies Cost -- The Seen and Unseen -- The Anti-Free Trader's True Enemy -- Nonsense Ideas -- Trade Deficits: Good or Bad? -- World Poverty -- Creating Effective Incentives -- Rules of Engagement -- The Pope Sanctions the OECD Thugs -- How to Create Conflict -- Disappearing Manufacturing Jobs -- Foreign Aid to Africa -- Will the West Defend Itself? -- Foreign Trade Angst -- Should We Trade at All? -- Should We Copy Europe? -- Our Trade Deficit -- Aid to Africa -- Sweatshop Exploitation -- Self-Inflicted Poverty -- The Appeasement Disease -- Economic Stupidity -- Poverty Myths -- Do Peace Treaties Produce Peace? -- Congressional and Leftist Lies -- Law and Society -- Constitution Day -- Rules More Important Than Personalities -- Property Rights -- Democracy or Liberty -- The Law versus Orders -- Economic and Property Rights -- Bogus Rights -- Results versus Process -- The Law or Good Ideas? -- Ignorance or Contempt -- American Contempt for Rule of Law -- Liberty's Greatest Advocate -- Corporate Courage -- Confiscating Property -- Attacking Western Values -- Immigration vs. Gate-Crashing -- The Greatest Generation -- Potpourri -- Illegal Immigration -- Straight Thinking 101 -- Things to Think About -- Historical Tidbits -- Running Out of Oil? -- Passing of a Giant -- The Productive vs. the Unproductive -- Making Intelligent Errors -- Economic Lunacy -- Do We Really Care about Children? -- Why We're a Divided Nation -- What's Inflation? -- Basic Economics -- U.S. Atrocities in Iraq -- Will the West Survive? -- Economics 101 -- Economic Lunacy -- Attack on Decency -- Profiling Needed.

A Dynamite Economics Department -- Who May Harm Whom? -- Too Much Safety -- There's No Free Lunch -- Dopey Ideas and Expressions -- Different Visions, Different Policy -- My Organs Are for Sale -- Parting Company Is an Option -- Honesty and Trust -- Race -- Regrets for Slavery -- Do People Care? -- Liberal Views, Black Victims -- Insulting Blacks -- Betrayal of the Civil Rights Struggle -- Racial Hoaxes and the NAACP -- What's Discrimination? -- What's Prejudice? -- Discrimination or Prejudice -- Discrimination, Prejudice, and Preferences -- How Much Does Politics Count? -- Racial Profiling -- Victimhood: Rhetoric or Reality -- Betrayal of the Struggle -- Racial Profiling -- Price Discrimination -- Three Cheers for the Cos -- A Usable Black History -- Does Political Power Mean Economic Power? -- Stifling Black Students -- Economics for the Citizen -- Economics for the Citizen - Part I -- Economics for the Citizen - Part II -- Economics for the Citizen - Part III -- Economics for the Citizen - Part IV -- Economics for the Citizen - Part V.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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