A Maverick's Defense of Freedom

by Rogge, Benjamin A.; Lee, Dwight R.

• ISBN13: 9780865977846
• ISBN10: 0865977844
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Liberty Fund

Summary

Benjamin A Rogge's ability to speak and write about serious economic topics with humour, humility, and wit, but without difficult jargon, math, or diagrams, places him in a category all his own. This new collection of fifty-three essays, many of which have never before been published, gathers some of Rogge's most interesting talks and writings spanning the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. This volume encompasses a vast array of topics including the case for individual liberty and responsibility in maintaining the free-market economy, the nature of economics, the business system, labour markets, money and inflation, and education. By organising the volume thematically, the editor, Dwight R Lee, has been able to highlight and place in context the many different areas of economics that compose Professor Rogge's extensive output.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Individual Liberty, Responsibility, and the Morality of the Market
The Case for Economic Freedom	p. 3
The New Conservatism	p. 10
The Only Economic System Consistent with Freedom and Responsibility	p. 16
Intellectuals' Curse of Capitalism	p. 23
Voluntary Organizations in the Free Society	p. 26
Speech in Honor of Leonard Read's Seventieth Birthday	p. 33
The Power of Tomorrow: Whither FEE?	p. 39
What are the Duties of the State?	p. 48
Is Economic Freedom Possible?	p. 55
The Role of Economists
What Economists Can and Cannot Do	p. 69
When to See Your Economist	p. 81
Economists as Freedom Fighters	p. 89
The Bicentennial of Economic Liberty	p. 94
Education
Education in a Free Society	p. 97
Education in a Free Society (with Pierre Goodrich)	p. 99
Complexity in Hades	p. 123
The Promise of the College	p. 129
Financing and Administering Higher Education	p. 135
What Price Education?	p. 137
Financing Higher Education	p. 143
Tenure	p. 148
Student Power and All That	p. 150
The Role of the Student	p. 153
Thursday Chapel: Rogge Raps Pledge Training	p. 155
Youth's Cause	p. 160
Well, So You're a College Graduate: What Tricks Can You Do?	p. 162
All Who Play Can Win	p. 169
The Role of Businesspeople and Intellectuals	p. 175
Speech in Honor of Charles D. LaFollette on His Retirement from Wabash's Board of Trustees	p. 177
It's Nice, but it May Never Sell	p. 186
I Remember...	p. 190
An Entry in the Business Citizenship Competition	p. 196
Microeconomics, Labor Issues, and Political Foibles
The Myth of Monopoly	p. 213
Putty in the Hands of the Image-Makers	p. 230
Debating the Gold Standard	p. 232
Job Creation...Whose Job is It?	p. 235
People, Problems, and Progress	p. 241
Union Wage Hike: An Economic Yes and No	p. 246
Barriers on the Road to Employment	p. 249
Racial Discrimination and the Market Place	p. 252
The Welfare State against the Negro	p. 264
Motivation and the Cost Squeeze	p. 279
Of Turnips and Energy Scarcity	p. 289
Yes, America, There is an Energy Problem, But...	p. 292
Macroeconomics: Policies and Forecasts
Keynesian Policy	p. 299
Economics-Some Relationships of Theory and Practice	p. 317
The Outlook for the American Economy	p. 321
Misconceptions of the Cause and Cure of Inflation	p. 326
Political Incentives and Continued Inflation	p. 337
The Political Economy of Inflation	p. 349
Foreign Policy and Economic Development
Should the United States Be in Vietnam?	p. 365
East-West Trade	p. 369
A Letter from São Paulo: They've Got an Awful Lot of Rogges in Brazil	p. 379
Haste Makes Waste in Economic Development	p. 384
The Role of Government in Latin American Economic Development	p. 388
Index	p. 409
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