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Title: More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453)
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| More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453) by Hoover Institution Press Extremely intelligent and funny | | This collection of Walter Williams' columns displays some of his best in teaching economics and in criticizing leftist social policies through logic and humor. In fact, only P.J. O'Rourke comes to mind in terms of producing such hilarious criticism of current social foolishness. Be careful because it may hurt your stomach muscles--it's that good. I highly recommend this book if you want to learn about social policies and be not so depressed about the decline and fall of Western civilization. The fact that the book is broken into short essays makes it even more readable. | | More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453) by Hoover Institution Press Must-read book -- Economics and Common Sense | My husband and I enjoy his columns every week in our local daily newspaper.
This book, a collection of essays (columns), lays out in a very readable format, what's wrong with "liberal ideas."
He's conservative, smart and makes sense out of many issue plaguing our country with an economics approach.
Makes me want to go back to college and study economics!
This book is a must-read and we plan on buying copies to give out to friends, especially those of a left-wing persuasion! | | More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453) by Hoover Institution Press Williams for President | | Amazing insight to what America is supposed to be. If only our politicians understood the issues like Walter Williams. Williams for President!!!!!! | | More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453) by Hoover Institution Press Reviews prove the need for this book | Once again we are given an opportunity to experience the clarity of vision afforded to us by someone who not only knows economics, but by someone who has the ability to express complex economic concepts in ways all but the most stubborn or ill-informed can appreciate. Some folks complain that this book is just a collection of previously published articles and that it doesn't read like a regular book. So what? I like the fact that I can pick a topic of interest to me today and read it in just a few minutes. Then I can pick a different topic tomorrow if my mood so dictates. As for criticizing the book for being "basically not thought out very well," I must disagree. Each of the articles not only stands on its own in terms of crisp writing and brilliant insight, there is a consistent philosophical logic that ties the articles together.
Criticisms of this book seem to be based more on a philosophical difference of opinion more than on a sophisticated critique of Professor Williams' writing. For example, one person criticized the book in part based on Professor Williams' opposition to the minimum wage. This person seems to hold the philosophical view that it is better public policy for a person to be unemployed at a higher minimum wage rate than to be employed at a lower market wage rate that he is willing to work for. This person also fails to consider that a person whose productivity is so low that he cannot produce a good or service worth at least what it costs to produce the good or service will not stay employed for very long. Perhaps the folks who support higher minimum wages should set up businesses and go ahead and pay people wages that exceed their marginal productivity. Let's see just how quickly they go bankrupt. It has been stated before that working for $5.15 per hour puts more bread on the table than being unemployed at $7.00 per hour. If a higher minimum wage does not have the adverse employment affects suggested by Professor Williams, why not advocate for $20 per hour? Better yet, at $100 per hour everyone would be able to buy health insurance coverage and we could solve two problems at once. If only the real world worked in such a simplistic manner.
A careful and thoughtful reading of "More Liberty Means Less Government" will help to educate folks who, because of a lack of formal economics training, are often more inclined to use fuzzy logic to evaluate matters of public policy. It will also help people to understand that there really is no such thing as non-economic issues. All decisions we make, whether in our public lives or in our private lives, involve making choices from among limited options. That makes them all economic issues. This is perhaps one of the single best lessons that can be learned by reading this book. | | More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453) by Hoover Institution Press Walter Williams: Champion | | Walter E. Williams should be a true champion for the African American population who resides in the United States. He has made a great living for himself, via teaching economic courses at George Mason and publishing two books. He is a true champion of capitalism and for the black people as a whole. Unfortunately, demagogues like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton - men with little or nothing of value to add to society except to more and more racism to the fire pander to black Americans shamelessly. Thankfully, Professor Williams makes light of this and other problems our country faces in his work "More Liberty Means Less Government". This was a fantastic, easy-to-read book. It's a collection of Williams' many articles/essays on Law, Society, Government, the Environment and many other interesting and fun topics. Many liberals claim Williams is just "another stuffed shirt conservative". This is not even close to being the case. Williams is a conservative/liberterian mix, always siding with what the Constitution has to say. Thankfully, in Williams' mind the Constitution is still "The Supreme Law of the Land". Unfortunately, others don't realize that. | | More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453) by Hoover Institution Press Book Description | In this new collection of thoughtful, hard-hitting essays, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights, brutal candor, and an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the principles laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution. He challenges the assumptions of contemporary liberalism with ruthless honesty, presenting an impressive array of powerful ideas and substantive information to frame his perspectives on the issues facing America in such critical areas as race, sex, government, law, education, the environment, and international relations. Williams's often controversial views include commentary on - Women in the Military. "At Parris Island, it was discovered that 45 percent of female Marines were unable to throw a hand grenade far enough to avoid blowing themselves up. If I were in a foxhole with a woman about to toss a hand grenade, I'd consider her the enemy."
- Racial and Gender Quotas. "The only reason the elite haven't mandated quotas for women, Japanese, and other underrepresented groups in the NBA and the NFL is because the folly and costs of their cosmic justice vision would be exposed."
- Affirmative Action. "Too many blacks receive twelve years of fraudulent primary and secondary education that cannot be overcome by four years of college. Unfortunately, liberals and civil rights organizations add to that disaster by giving unquestioned support to a corrupt education establishment that produces the fraud."
- The Americans with Disabilities Act. "In some quarters, the ADA is taken to stand for 'Attorney's Dream Answered.' And who pays? You and I, through higher prices or less convenience."
- The Minimum Wage. "Low wages are more a result of people being underproductive than being underpaid. They simply do not have the skills to produce and do things their fellow man highly values. The minimum wage law is evil legislation and deserving of repeal altogether."
Using the fundamentals of economics—and basic common sense—to prove his points, Williams offers wise, witty, and stimulating insights on these and other controversial subjects, including corporate welfare, gun control, environmental regulations, free trade, abortion, the public school system, tobacco industry regulation, and more. |
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