Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't by John Jr. (books to read for 12 year olds txt) 📗
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102 Charles Glenn, Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1995) 52.
103 Carlsson was later Sweden’s Prime Minister. See Roland Huntford, The New Totalitarians(New York: Stein and Day, 1972), 222 and 233.
104 Huntford, 1972, 222. See also Sherwin Rosen, “Public Employment and the Welfare State in Sweden,” Journal of Economic Literature (June 1996): 729-740.
105 John R. Lott, Jr., “Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism,” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 107, no. 6, part 2 (December 1999): S127-S157.
106 Robert Kaiser, Russia: The People and the Power (New York: Secker & W, 1976), 484.
107 Edward Taborsky, Communism in Czechoslovakia (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press), 1961, 542.
108 David K. Shipler, Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams (New York: Times Books, 1983): 116.
109 Quote from John Loftus, former federal prosecutor, “Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam,” FOX News, November 5, 2006, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. (http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?103106/103106_Obsession2&FNL&Watch%20a%20Preview%20of%20%27Obsession%27&acc&World&320&News&422&&&new#).
110 Discussion from Wayne Kopping on “Obsession: The Threat of Radical Islam,” FOX News, November 5, 2006, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. (http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?103106/103106_Obsession2&FNL&Watch%20a%20Preview%20of%20%27Obsession%27&acc&World&320&News&422&&&new#).
111 West argues that education in New York was essentially universal prior to government subsidies. “The term ‘universal’ is intended to mean, something like, ‘most,’ ‘nearly everybody,’ of ‘over 90 percent’ then we lack firm evidence to show that education was not already universal prior to the establishment of laws to provide a schooling which was both compulsory and free.” E.G. West, “The Political Economy of American Public School Legislation,” Journal of Law and Economics, 1967, 127.
112 John R. Lott, Jr., “Alternative Explanations for Public Provision of Education,” UCLA Economics Ph.D. Dissertation, May 1984.
113 E.G. West, “The Political Economy of American Public School Legislation,” Journal of Law and Economics (1967): 105.
114 The argument here is not that there is a mistake being made here, but simply that teachers incentives are set up to reflect the desires of those who want to have larger government. This argument also applies to public ownership of the media—National Public Radio employees likely have the same type of incentives as pubic school teachers.
115 Like the previous example, this compares totalitarian and free countries of the same total income.
116 John R. Lott, Jr., “Public Schooling, Indoctrination, and Totalitarianism,” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 107, no. 6, part 2 (December 1999): S144-S146.
117 A survey of 10 countries (Canada, England, France, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, South Korea, Soviet Union, Sweden, and West Germany) found that citizens have much more choice in selecting between public doctors or different public hospitals than in selecting the public school or teacher for their child. Unlike schooling, customers of public medical care do not bear the large cost of changing their residence in order to change doctors. While public doctors and hospitals do not compete for patients on the basis of price, they do compete on the basis of quality, and doctors and administrators’ salaries vary depending on the number of patients served. Forbidding salaries to vary on this basis or stopping patients from choosing among doctors would seem to lower the quality of care produced. See John R. Lott, Jr., “The Institutional Arrangement of Public Education: The Puzzle of Exclusive Territories,” Public Choice, vol. 54, no. 1 (1987): 89-96.
Conclusion: Parting Thoughts
1 F. A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” American Economic Review (September 1945): 519-530.
Index
A
AAA
ABA. See American Bar Association
ABC
ABC News
abortion: in 1970s; crime and; out-of-wedlock births and; Roe v. Wade and; Supreme Court, U. S. and; “unwanted” children and; unwanted fatherhood and
Abortion: Law, Choice, and Morality (Callahan)
Abramoff, Jack
ABSCAM
academia. See universities
academic freedom
ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union
ACORN. See Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now
ACT. See America Coming Together
Adams, Frank
Adelphia
affirmative action: consent decrees and; crime and; norming and; in police departments; strength standards and; testing standards and
Africa, HIV drugs and
African Americans: affirmative action in police departments and; crime and; Election 2000 and; out-of-wedlock births and; voter turnout, suppression of and; voting machines and
Airbus
airline travel
Alabama
Alaska
Allerca
Alterman, Eric
AMA. See American Medical Association
Amazon.com
America Coming Together (ACT)
American Airlines
American Bar Association (ABA)
American Center for Voting Rights
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Medical Association (AMA)
Americans for Democratic Action
AP. See Associated Press
apartheid
Apple
Arizona
Arkansas
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Ashenfelter, Orley
Asher, Herb
Associated Press (AP)
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Association of Private Weather-Related Companies
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
AT&T
auto insurance
automobiles: lemon thesis and ig; LoJack antitheft device and
B
Bacanovic, Peter
baseball
Beckel, Bob
Berry, Mary Francis
Biden, Joseph
black markets: price controls and; taxation and
Blagojevich, Rod
Bloomberg, Michael
Blumenauer, Earl
Blumstein, Alfred
Blunt, Matt
Brady Act (1994)
Brady Campaign
Brazil
Breyer, Stephen
“broken windows” policing methods
Bronars, Steve
Brown & Williamson cigarette makers
Buckley v. Valeo
Buffalo, University of
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.: campaign finance and; Election 2000 and; gun control and; media and; reputation and
Business Week’s
Butterfield, Fox
C
California
California, University of, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Callahan, Daniel
campaign finance: 527 groups and; “double-giving” and; elections, competitiveness of and; government spending and; incumbents, protection of and; McCain-Feingold bill (2002) and; media bias and; negative political advertising and; PACs and; reputation and; special interests and; Supreme Court, U. S. and; vote-buying and; vote buying and
Campbell Soup
Canada: abortion in; crime rates in; pharmaceuticals and
Cantwell, Maria
capitalism. See free market
capital punishment. See death penalty
car insurance
Carnegie Mellon University
Carrington, Ellsworth
cars: lemon thesis and; LoJack anti-theft device and
CarSense
Carter, Jimmy
Carter, Vince
Carter-Baker commission
CBS
Center for Responsive Politics
central planning: economic freedom vs.; free market vs.
Cheung, Steven
Chicago, Ill.
Chicago, University of
Chicago, University of, Law School
Chicago Tribune
Chile
China;
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