Richard M. Salsman's Articles
Economics, Reviews
Review: Keynes Hayek, by Nicholas Wapshott
Richard M. Salsman November 20, 2011
Richard M. Salsman reviews Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott.
Education & Parenting
Gates Foundation: Three Obvious Solutions Ignored
Richard M. Salsman September 30, 2011
I saw Melinda Gates on TV the other day, saying the Gates Foundation (to which Warren Buffet gives billions) is focused on “solving” three big problems in the world: malaria, polio, and government schools in America. But these problems have already been solved, have they not? What is the mystery?…
Economics, Reviews
Review: The Bourgeois Virtues, by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Richard M. Salsman August 20, 2011
Richard M. Salsman reviews The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce, by Deirdre N. McCloskey.
Ayn Rand & Objectivism, Economics
Economics in Atlas Shrugged
Richard M. Salsman February 20, 2011
Shows how the novel brilliantly dramatizes the essential principles of this science along with the fallacies involved in denying those principles.
Economics
Altruism: The Moral Root of the Financial Crisis
Richard M. Salsman February 20, 2009
Zeros in on the fundamental cause of the problem, showing that widespread acceptance of the morality of self-sacrifice necessitated the kinds of laws, regulations, and decisions that have driven the financial markets into the gutter.