Beyond the Status Quo: Policy Proposals for AmericaCato Institute, 1985 - 292 sider |
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Social Security Reform The Super IRA | 51 |
The Entrepreneurial Imperative | 75 |
Freeing Trade | 91 |
The Price and Perils of NATO | 111 |
An Agenda for Regulatory Reform | 145 |
Antitrust | 165 |
The Information Revolution | 183 |
Solving the Education Crisis Market Alternatives and Parental Choice | 207 |
Deregulating the Poor | 223 |
Reforming Resource Policy Toward Free Market Environmentalism | 247 |
The Supreme Court The Final Arbiter | 273 |
Contributors | 291 |
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Side 33 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Side 219 - The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only.
Side 20 - Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies ? Thought would destroy their paradise! No more; — where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
Side 92 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Side 77 - The function of entrepreneurs," Joseph Schumpeter wrote in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, is to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention or, more generally, an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of materials or a new outlet for products, by reorganizing an industry and so on.
Side 81 - There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
Side 77 - To undertake such new things is difficult and constitutes a distinct economic function, first, because they lie outside of the routine tasks which everybody understands and, secondly, because the environment resists in many ways...
Side 118 - European allies should not keep asking us to multiply strategic assurances that we cannot possibly mean or if we do mean, we should not want to execute because if we execute, we risk the destruction of civilization.3 Kissinger's remarks should not have been surprising.