Liberty versus the tyranny of socialism : controversial essays / Walter E. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Walter E. (Walter Edward), 1936-2020.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Liberty--History.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter Williams offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics. Although many of these essays focus on the growth of government and our loss of liberty, many others demonstrate how the tools of freemarket economics can be used to improve our lives in ways ordinary people can understand.

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 HealthBusybodies 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 BattleIs 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 FollyAre 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 AfricaSweatshop 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817949136

0817949135