Publications
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In Commerce & Community: Ecologies of Social Cooperation (Routledge 2014), Robert Garnett, Paul Lewis and I set out to encourage interaction and cross-fertilization among several contemporary lines of research that have begun to reject the division of economic life into separate spheres of commerce and community (impersonal, amoral Gesellschaft vs. face-to-face, ethically imbued Gemeinschaft) and to recast
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Published at The Freeman, August 4, 2014. http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/is-education-policy-economic-policy
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Published in The Freeman Online, August 28, 2013 American public discourse is characterized today by predictions of decline and fall that offer little hope to the rising generations. From economic, social, and political critics, there is ample commentary on America’s self-destructive path. Such prognoses have given birth to a mini-industry of Tocqueville studies, with partisans
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One watch set right will do to set many by. —American folk saying It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the
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with Virgil Storr and Chris Coyne at PhilanthropyDaily Writing recently in the Wall Street Journal (“How Big Government Co-Opted Charities,” July 17, 2013) James Piereson aptly suggests that one of the fundamental questions to consider in the coming fight over the charitable deduction is whether it is possible to wean the not-for-profit sector from its dependence on the
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Review of Fred Inglis, History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood Published in Books and Culture, Dec/Jan 2012 In An Autobiography, published in 1939 on the eve of World War II, English philosopher R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) reflected on the historical legacy of World War I. “[A] war of unprece-dented ferocity,” wrote Collingwood, “closed in
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History, On Proper Principles: Essays in Honor of Forrest McDonald by Steven M. Klugewicz and Lenore T. Ealy Publication Date: April 1, 2010 Few historians have been as prolific—or as controversial—as Forrest McDonald, who has spent his long career shattering myths and standing athwart the increasingly ideological approach of his fellow historians. Perhaps most notably, he
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Liberty and Learning: Milton Friedman’s Voucher Idea at Fifty By Robert C. Enlow & Lenore T. Ealy Publication Date: August 10, 2006 Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman had the ground-breaking idea to improve public education with school vouchers. By separating government financing of education from government administration of schools, Friedman argued, parents at all income levels
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Philanthropy Daily Now Philanthropy Daily® » Civil society needs healthy pluralism of philanthropy
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Review of Peter Frumkin, Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy2007 Published in Azure, Spring 5767/2007, no. 28 “The desire for human betterment,” observed grants economist Kenneth Boulding, “is part of the genetic potential of the human species.” It is thus remarkable, if we take at face value the centrality to the human experience of giving as
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