The Open Market Blog

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 10/21/2010

Over at the Boards at their Best blog, James Kristie, editor of the journal Directors & Boards, recently proposed a rule requiring that…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 10/05/2010

Kenneth Feinberg, the individual dolling out the $20 billion BP Oil Spill “Settlement” (a No Pressure Voluntary thing), has been criticized for distributing funds too…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 06/29/2010

Mickey Edwards, former congressman from Oklahoma and guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Government, has written an interesting blog on the case for business…

• By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
• 05/18/2010

The idea that government can “perfect” an imperfect market (an artifact of economists’ “perfect competition” theory) has again become an item of faith among intellectuals.