Getting the Prices Right by David Morris December 17, 1996 Never before has so bad an idea so quickly captured the imagination of America’s leadership. I’m talking, of course, of the preposterous notion of reducing inflation by congressional fiat. This nonsense began in January 1995 when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan informed an enchanted Congress that … Read More
Reclaiming Democracy Means Getting Money Out of Politics by David Morris November 19, 1996 This was the election we learned that money doesn’t just talk, it screams. Campaign spending broke the $1 billion mark. Both political parties sunk to new lows in financial sleaziness. We learned that if you want to handicap an American election all … Read More
Let’s Go For Full Employment by David Morris November 5, 1996 There are societal tragedies and there are personal tragedies. For many the death of William Vickrey three days after he won the Nobel Prize for economics would be counted as a personal tragedy. He was, after all, 82 years old. Yet the timing of his … Read More
A presention by David Morris, Institute for Local Self-Reliance to the Sixteenth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, October 26, 1996… Read More
Who Controls the Air Waves? by David Morris October 22, 1996 Who should control the air waves? That’s the kind of question I would have put to the presidential candidates if I were part of the audience in San Diego. Some futurists insist the question will soon be irrelevant. Advanced communications technologies will offer us so … Read More
Utility Merger Frenzy Isn’t Healthy by David Morris August 27, 1996 Once upon a time in America, both political parties damned giant monopolies. At the turn of the century, Republican President Teddy Roosevelt used anti-trust laws to battle concentrated corporate power. His favorite target was the energy industry. In the 1930s Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt helped … Read More
by David Morris July 30, 1996 “Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America…” Thus wrote John Tierney, a staff writer for the New York Times in a recent Sunday magazine cover story. The article generated more mail than any piece the magazine has ever published and spawned a slew of Op Ed pieces … Read More
Recycling and the New York Times by David Morris July 30, 1996 “Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America…” Thus wrote John Tierney, a staff writer for the New York Times in a recent Sunday magazine cover story. The article generated more mail than any piece the magazine has ever published and spawned … Read More
This speech by David Morris was originally presented at the International Forum on Globalization in Washington, D.C., in May 1996.… Read More