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How the Government Keeps Indians in Poverty

Wall Street JournalNov. 22, 1995   By Terry L. Anderson For a few brief weeks this autumn, American Indians were in the news with their protests over the World Series’ teams nicknames. But, as usual, the protests have faded into the background—and the attention was never on the critical social and economic issues, anyway. TheContinue reading “How the Government Keeps Indians in Poverty”

How Free Markets Protect the Environment

This essay is excerpted from Rational Readings on Environmental Concerns, Jay H. Lehr, editor (New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992). Conventional economic wisdom, in a theory first propounded by Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson, holds that the unregulated market cannot be expected to protect the environment. In this theory, clean air and water are “publicContinue reading “How Free Markets Protect the Environment”