The contemporary American city serves as evidence of government failure and as a focal point for crisismongering. In this paper I argue why it is important for Americans to reject the city as crisis syn- drome and to move to a view of the city as an increasingly malleable landscape formed by the...

Before we can understand and evaluate the political economy of the petroleum industry, it is essential that we review the fundamental nature of the market economy and of the interventionist process. The market economy is an institutional arrangement whereby owners of property voluntarily enter...

Federal, state and local governments have spent literally hundreds of billions of dollars in the past two decades to solve the nation's urban problems. Yet these problems are now far worse than when these efforts began. It is merely to state the obvious to say that these efforts, taken...

The purpose ofthis paper isto examine some ofthe salient features of the concept of enterprise zones, especially those aspects included intheadministration'splan,inanefforttopredicttheactualoutcome of this policy proposal if it is enacted and implemented. Even though the concept of enterprise...

Recently, a libertarian journal published a hard-hitting, if predict- able, broadside of ideological purity aimed at the enterprise zone concept. All the usual arguments were there. If economic freedom is so marvelous, why ration it to a few inner-city zones? Why should a firm in the South Bronx...

Conflict over the use and management of America’s forest lands and resources intensified during the 1970s, with debates over the use of the undeveloped lands inventoried by the Forest Service, the divi- sion of lands in Alaska, the establishment and expansion of certain national parks...

Economists have long believed that government’s tax and expendi- ture policy either is, or can readily be made to be, neutral to the market. Free-market economists have advocated such neutrality of government, and even economists favoring redistributive actions by government have believed...

The purpose ofthis paper isto examine some ofthe salient features of the concept of enterprise zones, especially those aspects included intheadministration'splan,inanefforttopredicttheactualoutcome of this policy proposal if it is enacted and implemented. Even though the concept of enterprise...