by Henry Oliner | Mar 27, 2017 | Economics
from Kevin Williamson in National Review, The Social Machine: The people who have an explicit legal obligation to work not on our behalf but on behalf of their shareholders do a pretty good job of giving us what we want; the people who vow to work on our behalf do...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 24, 2013 | Economics, Politics
Michael Novak writes in The National Review, Democratic Capitalism The prospering of free societies depends on certain moral and cultural practices. Sept 24, 2013 Excerpt: What I have been trying to bring out in these brief remarks on the economy and the polity of...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 30, 2012 | American Thinker, Economics
George Gilder in The New Edition of Wealth and Poverty made an interesting observation that capital is the tool of capitalism like books are the tools of the intellectuals and academics. This analogy led me to my article in American Thinker Craftsmen of Capital...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 23, 2012 | Economics
Charles Murray writes in the Review section of the weekend Wall Street Journal, July 28-29/12, Why Capitalism Has an Image Problem. Excerpt: Another factor is the segregation of capitalism from virtue. Historically, the merits of free enterprise and the obligations of...