Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't John Jr. (the dot read aloud .txt) 📖

Five Years of Soviet Occupation, (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 1986). Another example of Soviet opposition to the family is the official propagation of the tale of Pavlik Morozov in the 1930s. According to the story, the twelve-year-old Morozov denounced his own father to the authorities for allegedly assisting efforts by private farmers to resist the state’s collectivization of their farms. Pavlik, who was later killed by his own family members, was immortalized as a martyr for communism in songs and stories taught to Soviet children until the regime’s collapse. The moral of Morozov’s story was to trust the state, not one’s own family.

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;