Wage-Price Controls Under Nixon

2003-06-13 Thread Alex Tabarrok
Michael Kinsley has an interesting piece in Slate today. http://slate.msn.com/id/2084315/ It's about the Patriot Act and other so-called security measures and whether they infringe on our liberties. He concludes that so-far the infringement has not been so bad but there is potential danger in

Re: Wage-Price Controls Under Nixon

2003-06-13 Thread Marc . Poitras
Well, the average American is not so pro-freedom as, say, Walter Williams, but considerably more so than the average Frenchman or German. So it's all relative. By the way, contrary to Kinsley's assertion, wage and price controls were not merely a cynical re-election ploy. There was a real

Re: Wage-Price Controls Under Nixon

2003-06-13 Thread Alex Tabarrok
Well, the average American is not so pro-freedom as, say, Walter Williams, but considerably more so than the average Frenchman or German. Really? How do you measure this? The remarkable fact is that it is apparently perfectly legal for the government in the United States to control the price

Re: Wage-Price Controls Under Nixon

2003-06-13 Thread Marc . Poitras
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