“My goal from the beginning,” states Caldwell, “was to be a writer of fiction that revealed . . . the inner spirit of men and women as they responded to the joys of life and reacted to the sorrows of existence.” The conclusion, however, of what he sought to achieve “with all my might” is...
Author: Tommy W. Rogers (Tommy W. Rogers)
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Revisionist Economics
James J. Hill and the transcontinental railroads. Commodore Vanderbilt and the steamship industry, the Scrantons and the development of the iron-rail industry, Charles Schwab and the steel industry, and John D. Rockefeller and the oil industry are the focus of this intriguing economic history which is simultaneously scholarly and immensely interesting. Folsom presents the subjects...
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Planned Obsolescence
Dr. Lavoie, assistant professor of economics at George Mason University, argues that planning—whether Marxism, economic democracy, or other designation—must inevitably disrupt social and economic coordination. The problem of how to effectively use knowledge in society to produce the goods and services which the public wants cannot be solved by central planning and control. Lavoie takes...
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Some Place in Time
“Rural areas are shrinking, accents are becoming less distinct, and Southerners are being tamed,” writes Pete Daniels of the changes which have transformed the agrarian nation of Davis and Lee into the modern South. Daniels may have his feet planted firmly in earthy Southern history, but there has not been a concerted demand by creationists...
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Government Of, By, and Against the Public
Although it is widely believed that persons who oppose big government are sympathetic to large businesses and have no compassion for the little guy, no such logical connection exists. Democratic governments, as the author points out, respond to the interests of large, well-organized, and well-financed groups. Big business learned to induce governments “to further their...
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Bad, Bad Boy
“Big Jim” Folsom (1908- ), governor of Alabama (1946-1950, 1954-1958), was said to have entered office on a collision course with the state’s two major economic estates, big business and big agriculture. The 20-county Black Belt (a name derived from its soil, but equally descriptive of population composition) traverses the state just south of center....
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Hillbillies and Rednecks
“Taake my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad.” —Tennyson Two professors at Mississippi State University, a sociologist and a communicationist, have decoupaged their observations, experiences, and intrapsychic projections into a “phenomenological analysis” of The Southern Redneck. If their work has any redeeming social value, it is as a kind of...
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Refuting the Planners
Richard McKenzie, a member of the economics department of Clemson University, here assesses the probable impact of new government regulation of the economy under what politicians like to call “National Industrial Policy” (NIP). He sets forth the major legislative policy proposals promoted under this rubric, and he examines their probable effect upon international trade, capital...
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In Turbulent Seas
Robert Ruark has nothing on Otto Scott for ability to provide simultaneous political commentary and African travelogue. A careful historian and shrewd observer with the ability to set forth his observations with apt parsimony, Scott has written a book eclectic in sweep, including incisive commentary on the state of Western morality, media and culture, and...