Memorandum from future Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This document came to be widely known as the Powell Memorandum. It is seen by many as an influential document in various conservative and pro-corporate political movements.
Summary of the discussion regarding the benefits of free enterprise administered by Dr. Kenneth McFarland at the Pepperdine College Freedom Forum. Clipping taken from The Herald Express (Los Angeles, California). ; x1959
Free enterprise is the indispensable prerequisite for personal freedom, which I dare believe is still highly valued by most people. Hence, it is also the only economic system which is compatible with the democratic governments of Europe and America. However, the vitality of free enterprise is being threatened by government interventionism on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, this manifests itself in taxation, nationalization, restrictive policies, subsidization, labor laws, and the growth of the public sector. In America, we find much of the same, excepting nationalization. In order to restore vigor to the weakened private sector, we must return to traditional economic liberalism, while fostering free trade between the United States and Europe.
This article presents personal reflections on a vision to move the Blacks in America from a state of despair to one of prosperity. It is a bold attempt to present the experience of 50 years of activism, teaching, and writing on the subject. I have a clear vision of how the community, local government, and the university can join forces in a social and economic development project that would help poor Blacks form and own "tenant Organizations" and make them "Stockholders," through carefully planned and executed cooperation. It is a real game changer in the lives of the American Blacks since the days of Black Wall Street.
This paper is the keynote speech delivered by Professor William Baumol at the First World Congress of Environmental Economists that was held in Venice on June 25-27, 1998. It analyses the situation of the environment under different economic regimes: the feudal society, Marxism and capitalism. After a brief description of the environmental situation in medieval England, in the Soviet Nations, in Eastern Europe, in China and in capitalist countries, the author concludes that each economic regime is worse than the other in terms of its environmental performance. There is, however, a message of hope in the long run for the environment. This hope lies in the abundance and growth, such as the world has never known, produced by the market economy. As abundance increases, as people cease being hungry, cease going around naked, cease having no houses, they begin to think about the environment. This has allowed concern about the environment to become a powerful political issue. Environmentalists will have to take advantage of this opportunity remembering, however, that the battle has just begun.
4 p., ill., Vol. 12, No. 4, Fall 1996; Minimum Wage Laws Violate the 'Invisible Hand' and the U. S. Constitution; The Truth About Supply-Side Tax Cuts in the 1980's; Letters to the Editor; Meeting the Challenges: Planning for Change; Spotlight on BU Entrepreneurs; Constitution Day and Free Enterprise Day;
4 p., ill., Vol. 11, No. 4, Fall 1995; What is the Sum of Good Government?; Letters to the Editor; Freedom Shrine Unveiled; Bellevue BRUIN Baseball Team Wins the NAIA National Championship; ELC Established Advisory Board; Fall ELC Events : Constitution Day and Free Enterprise Day
The history of Texas and Houston is directly related to the rise of modern capitalism. Through a historiographic observation, in this paper we examine the emergence and consolidation of the city of Houston and how it has captured the intervention of private capital in a voracious land appropriation scheme and speculative real estate industry. This development is founded over a deep-rooted ideology that permeates Houston and Texas, considering land as a commodity and a culture of privatism. We review the rationale and protagonists of the relevant historic phases of urban development that have fed the cultural symbolic dimension of the "free enterprise city" and "city of the future." And, demonstrate the fallacy of the laissez-faire ideology predicated by the business elite while lobbying for government funds to extend Houston's urban territory, build infrastructure, and invest in expensive industrial facilities which mainly benefit the elite.
4 p., ill., Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 1997, Bellevue University Vision: An Information Age University for the 21st Century; Letters; The Triumph of Market Democracy; Bottom Line Enters New Era; The Leadership Corner;
4 p., ill., Vol. 7, No. 2, Winter 1990, EC 92: Start of a United States of Europe?; Primer of EC Government; Letters to the Editor; TV Coverage Publicizes a Book; Economic Policy Series; ABC's of Federal Reserve Money Creation;
4 p., ill., Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall 1987; The Real Meaning and Significance of the Great Seal of the United States; The Right Stuff; Letters to the Editor; 'The Bottom Line' replaces Esping Center Newsletter; New Directions; Bellevue College's New Entrepreneurial Leadership Center to be Dedicated October 29;
Among the one hundred or so business-type activities of the Government are certain operations of the Atomic Energy Commission. In this article we shall examine the origin, growth and usefulness of just one phase of these AEC activities, that is, the production and distribution of radioisotopes. This activity is singled out for emphasis partly because of the remarkable success story resulting from the use of such isotopes, but more especially because of an unusual and even unique aspect of "state trading" introduced into the business by the AEC. We refer to, and shall explain in some detail, an unusual self-limiting feature which the Commission has invoked to bring the governmental activity to an end if, and when, private nuclear enterprise enters the field and serves the needs of consumers. It is this last feature that warrants calling the Commission's radioisotope activity something notable; in fact, it is virtually an ideal in state trading and a credit to a free enterprise economy.