The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey - Rilegato

Henderson, David R.

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ISBN 10: 0130621129 ISBN 13: 9780130621122

Casa editrice: Financial Times Management, 2001

Riassunto

Henderson (economics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey) presents a manifesto of capitalist libertarianism. The book posits "freedom" as the underpinning of all economic justice and prosperity and touches upon the standard issues of capitalist libertarianism, attacking government interference in the relationships of property. Henderson uses his stunning revelation about the nature of freedom to condemn the minimum wage, social security, closed shop unions, and other bogeymen of capitalists. Two examples should suffice to show the nature of his commentary. In his chapter on unions, Henderson argues that unions are overly powerful today because the U.S. government put them in that position, ignoring the long history of battles by workers to establish unions while under attack by both employers and government. Additionally, he argues that the reason for income inequality in the world is a direct result of the amount that individuals produce, reasoning that the top five percent of individuals own the vast majority of assets, because they directly produce the vast majority of assets. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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DR. DAVID R. HENDERSON is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution, and Associate Professor of Economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is editor of The Fortune Encyclopedia of Economics and writes frequently for The Wall Street Journal and Fortune. In 1984, he won the Mencken award for investigative journalism for his first Fortune article, "The Myth of MITI." Formerly a monthly columnist for Red Herring, Henderson has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, and The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.

Henderson was previously senior economist for health and energy with President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He has testified against the draft before the Senate Armed Services Committee, on taxes before the House Ways and Means Committee, and on health policy before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. In the late 1970s, Henderson spoke on college campuses and on television against a renewal of military conscription.

Born and raised in Canada, Henderson earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Winnipeg in 1970 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976.

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• Editore: Financial Times Management
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0130621129
• ISBN 13: 9780130621122
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 361