Arthur E. Foulkes

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07/01/2006 Free Market Arthur E. Foulkes

The Free Market 24, no. 7 (July/August 2006) “But when are you going to get to the economics?” It was the end of my first day volunteering to teach “basic economics” to a group of fifth graders. The...

Money in Politics: A Red Herring

04/19/2004 Mises Wire Arthur E. Foulkes

Campaign finance reform never works, unless its goal is simply to create new regulations and stifle political speech. But this is beside the point. As long as the government has the power to pick...

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