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Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government. Show all posts
Monday, December 21, 2009

America No Longer a Free Country

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The tipping point for freedom versus servitude is necessarily vague. Certainly, if we depend on the state for our livelihood, we cannot cho...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Community and Progressivism

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Progressivism expressed the moral impulse of social Gospel Christianity and Populism as well as the social democratic ideas that late ninete...
Thursday, July 3, 2008

Liberalism: The Ship that Does Not Sail

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The Mugwumps and Progressives emphasized management issues and execution of programs. Herbert Croly, for instance, discussed scientific mana...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

The Federalist No. 13 and Economies of Scale in Government

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In the Federalist Number 13 Hamilton argues that an advantage to adoption of the Constitution and establishment of a unified nation as oppos...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Time Preference and Political Ideology

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Government has a short time preference. Budgets are annual. Current political reality drives decisions. Neither history nor future project...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Social System Matching and the Expertise Culture

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In the twentieth century the idea of convergence was suggested to explain the trend of socialist economies to look more like capitalist ones...
Friday, May 25, 2007

Adam Clayton Powell IV, Harlem's Hero in the NY Assembly

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Jacob Gershman, in today's New York Sun , notes that while some New York Assembly members such as Joseph Lentol have sponsored over 100 ...