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William H. Peterson

January 01, 1970

For the California politician, see William H. Peterson (politician).

William Herbert Peterson (February 26, 1921 – June 2012) was an American economist who wrote on the insights of Ludwig von Mises through teaching, writing, and speaking on the relationship between free enterprise and human liberty.[1]

William H. Peterson
Born(1921-02-26)February 26, 1921
Died(2012-06-19)June 19, 2012
Academic career

Education edit

Peterson earned a B.S. (1943) and Ph.D. (1952) degrees in economics from New York University[1] and an M.S. degree from Columbia University (1948). During World War II, he also studied at the Harvard Business School under Navy sponsorship and attended a summer leave seminar at Oxford University.

During his academic career, Peterson served as assistant to the dean, associate professor, and professor of economics in the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University, where he was a colleague and friend of Ludwig von Mises, John David Campbell, professor of American business in the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona, Scott L. Probasco. Jr., professor of free enterprise and director, Center for Economic Education, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Distinguished Burrows T. and Mabel L. Lundy Emeritus Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina, and a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, where he served as adjunct scholar.[1]

Career edit

His experience in business and government included service as Economist and Assistant to the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the United States Steel Corporation, Senior Economic Advisor to the United States Department of Commerce, and economics speechwriter on the campaign staff of Richard Nixon. Peterson has served as a consultant for General Electric, General Motors, Republic of the Ivory Coast, Republic of South Vietnam, Time Magazine, Union Carbide, Manufacturers-Hanover Trust, and Southern Company, and other companies.

In January 1979, Peterson was appointed to be a member of the Federal Drafting Committee of the National Tax Limitation Committee. Led by Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman, this committee composed a draft of a constitutional amendment to limit the growth of the Federal budget.

In 1982, Peterson was sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency to lecture on supply-side economics in Romania, East Germany, Ireland and Canada. For this effort, he won a letter of commendation from President Ronald Reagan.

In 1961, the McKinsey Foundation awarded first prize to Peterson for the best article of the year, "The Case for a North American Common Market," published in Indiana University's Business Horizons. In 1981, the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge gave Dr. Peterson the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education. In 1989, the Association of Private Enterprise Education named Dr. Peterson as Distinguished Scholar. In 1990, the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge awarded him the George Washington Medal of Honor. In 1991 he was awarded an honorary degree by Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. In 1993, Campbell University conferred on him the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

In 2005, Peterson was awarded the Gary G. Schlarbaum Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Human Liberty, awarded by the Ludwig von Mises Institute where he was an adjunct scholar.

Writings and speeches edit

Peterson published articles in the Harvard Business Review, The Freeman, The Free Market, Washington Times, Monthly Labor Review, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Dun's Review, Business Week, Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Literature, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Tokyo), Die 24t, Farmand (Oslo), Australian (Sydney), Sunday Times (London), and others. He wrote daily articles on Mises.org, and is the author of two tributes to Ludwig von Mises: "Thoughts and Memories" and "Mises: A Turning Point".

For fourteen years, he wrote a regular column for the Wall Street Journal entitled "Reading for Business." Apart from authoring monographs and books including The Great Farm Problem (1959), he contributed entries to McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Economics (1982, 1992). He has appeared as a guest commentator on the national PBS-TV show, Nightly Business Report. He was a member of the "Brain Trust" contributing a column to the Investor's Business Daily.

Peterson generally wrote about economics, education, and politics. He praised capitalism quite often and stressed its necessity for a thriving society, such as in his The Washington Times article "Capitalism Appraised".[2] Peterson also voiced his concern for present-day education standards in writings such as his article in The Free Market titled "School Values, Public and Private", where he states that "America's worry over a general moral erosion in politics and society has coincided with ever-more draconian federal control over education." Many of his writings overlapped in his topics of interest, mixing education with government and relating government to economics and capitalism.

Peterson lectured at the University of the Americas (Mexico City), Harvard University, Princeton University, University of Arizona, University of Connecticut, University of Virginia, Florida State University, Chattanooga State, Northwood Institute, Emory and Henry College, Peace College, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Wellesley College, University of New Hampshire, and others, including various professional and trade associations. Many of his speeches discussed topics regarding the Austrian school of economics, following the ideas of Mises.

List of works edit

Business edit

  • Is Business "Administration?," 1981
  • Getting Results with Information, May 28, 1992: THe Washington Times

Economics edit

  • Who Also Pays Business Taxes?, Heritage Foundation and the Mises Institute
  • The Bookshelf: How to Curb Competition WHile Trying to Spur It, March 1, 1936: The Wall Street Journal
  • The Legacy of Lord Keynes, September 14, 1959: British Society for Individual Freedom: Freedom First
  • Peterson's 'Law': An economist's foray into the nature of money and the declining value thereof, November 1959: Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, vol. 8, no. 2
  • Automation and Unemployment – An Oft-Exploded Myth Revives, March 5, 1962: Barron's
  • The Other Revolution of '76, Fall 1973: Modern Age
  • Who is the Real Employer? – The True Source of Jobs, 1976: Chamber of Commerce of the United States
  • In Defense of Millionaires, February 1981: The Freeman
  • Defending the Rich, October 16, 1986: The Chattanooga Times
  • The Free Market Reader, 1988: Mises Institute
  • Take a Hard Look At Transfers, Spring 1990: The Campbell Entrepreneur, vol. 13, no. 1
  • The Business Outlook: Short War – Short Recession, February 13, 1991: Anchor Financial Group Meeting – Raleigh, NC
  • America's Second Democracy, April 4, 1991: Campbell University Honors Banquet
  • Bulging Budget Transfers, June 29, 1992: The Washington Times
  • Capital Day, 1998, May 1998: The Free Market, vol. 16, no. 5
  • Free Markets: The Status Quo vs. America's Other Democracy, January 23, 1999: CaptiveAire meeting – Tulsa, OK
  • Free Trade and Capitalism: America's Other Democracy, April 1, 1999: Vital Speeches of the Day, vol. 65, no. 12
  • Drumbeat Against Capitalism, August 2, 1999: Investor's Business Daily
  • The Golden Rule and the Free Market, c. 2000
  • Economic Freedom Spreads Globally As Adam Smith's lessons Take Hold, April 10, 2000: Investor's Business Daily
  • Capitalism Appraised: A new look at mankind's greatest achievement, July 3, 2001: The Washington Times
  • WHP Remarks, Capital Research Center, April 9, 2002: The Free Market, vol. 20, no. 9
  • Capitalism: The Greatest Charity, September 2002: The Free Market, vol. 20, no. 9
  • When Government Is the Problem, January 26, 2003: The Washington Times
  • America's Greatest Democracy, July 29, 2003
  • The Meaning of Market Democracy, December 2003: The Free Market, vol. 21, no. 12
  • A Self-Defeating System: The problem with welfare, December 9, 2003: The Washington Times
  • Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy, March 2004: Economic Club of Detroit
  • The Power to Destroy, April 1, 2004
  • Free to Prosper: Ranking countries' liberty and growth, August 31, 2004: The Washington Times
  • The Democracy of the Market, November 2005: The Free Market, vol. 26, no. 11
  • Economics in One Lesson: With Apologies to Henry Hazlitt, August 28, 2006: Shaftesbury Conference (John Locke Foundation)
  • World Peace Through World Trade, November 20, 2006
  • Disenfranchising America's Great Democracy, March 29, 2007
  • Peterson's Law of Inflation, August 28, 2007
  • America's Other Democracy: Politics and Economics at Work, April 3, 2008
  • Two Manifestos, Two Revolutions, August 5, 2008
  • Anti-State, Anti-War, Pro-Market, June 24, 2009: The Washington Times
  • The Accelerator and Say's Law, December 8, 2011: On Freedom and Free Enterprise: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises (1956)
  • Capitalism: Our Greatest Charity and Democracy
  • Forward with Uneconomics?
  • Peterson's Law: Featuring America's Other Democracy and the Forgotten Man
  • Peterson's Law: Or Why Things Go Wrong
  • Postal Status Quo or Ayn Rand Millenium?
  • Who Really Pays Business Taxes?

Education edit

  • School Values, Public and Private, April 1997: The Free Market, vol. 15, no. 4
  • Public Education's Cardinal Sin, April 22, 2003: Campbell University
  • Leave No Child Behind: Capitalism reform in education, January 27, 2004: The Washington Times

Entrepreneurship edit

  • Entrepreneurship, the Possible Dream, November 1985: The Freeman

Morals edit

  • Natural Law and Its Law-Breaker Extraordinary, February 26, 2004
  • Mencken vs. Lincoln, April 14, 2009

Politics edit

  • The Greatest Show on Earth, August 11, 1956: Time & Tide
  • Should We Trade With the Communists?, April 1956: Harvard Business Review, vol. 37, no. 2
  • The Taproots of Political Corruption, December 1990: The Freeman
  • A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought (Reviewed by Peterson), May 1992: The Freeman
  • Imperial Rights Regimen, July 16, 1992: The Washington Times
  • Stoning Nixon, May 1996
  • Rational Ignorance or Citizenship Education, November 6, 1997: Dallas Fed Lunch
  • Remarks to Marriott Ballston (VA) Residents, June 14, 2001
  • The Forgotten Man: How Americans Fare in Their Two Democracies, June 22, 2002: A Strategy for High Schoolers—Young America's Foundation, Arlington, VA
  • Freedom and Prosperity: Together, they are the coming thing, December 17, 2002: The Washington Times
  • Huffington turned by the tide: Author takes selective swipes at America's greedy, February 26, 2003: The Washington Times
  • Strange bedfellows: The liaison between politics and science, November 4, 2003: The Washington Times
  • Constitutional Rights?: Preserving the Founders' Intent, April 20, 2004: The Washington Times
  • America's Other Democracy, November 5, 2004
  • The Muddle of the Road, November 10, 2004
  • Back to basics: America's democratic origins, December 27, 2004: The Washington Times
  • The Endless Muddle East Imbroglio: Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace?, August 24, 2006
  • Legacy Lost: GOP's big government, February 27, 2007: The Washington Times
  • More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (reviewed by Peterson)

On Mises edit

  • Ludwig von Mises: Thoughts and Memories, 1971: Toward Liberty (Institute of Humane Studies)
  • Memories of Ludwig von Mises, May 1987: The Free Market (Mises Institute)
  • Discovering Mises: A Turning Point, November 13, 2003
  • Mises in New York 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine, October 8, 2005: The Economics of Fascism
  • Mises in America, 2009

Miscellaneous edit

  • One Harlem, Then the Other, August 11, 1984: The New York Times
  • The Pilgrims' Turkey of an Idea, November 21, 1990
  • For Dancers Only: Remembering Swing, April 1994: Chronicles

References edit

  1. ^ a b c David Boaz. "William H. Peterson, RIP", Cato Institute, June 22, 2012
  2. ^ William H. Peterson, "Capitalism Appraised", The Washington Times, July 3, 2001

External links edit

  • RIP: William Peterson from the Cato Institute
  • RIP: William Peterson from LewRockwell.com 2013-06-28 at the Wayback Machine
  • Schlarbaum Award Acceptance Speech by William H. Peterson 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine
  • William Peterson's Mises Daily Article Archive
  • A Tribute to William H. Peterson by Thomas DiLorenzo, 1921–2012 2013-07-19 at the Wayback Machine Presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference on 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
  • A Tribute to William H. Peterson, 1921–2012 Presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference on 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.
  • A Tribute to William H. Peterson, 1921–2012 2013-05-22 at the Wayback Machine Presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference on 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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For the California politician see William H Peterson politician This article includes a list of general references but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations May 2013 Learn how and when to remove this message William Herbert Peterson February 26 1921 June 2012 was an American economist who wrote on the insights of Ludwig von Mises through teaching writing and speaking on the relationship between free enterprise and human liberty 1 William H PetersonBorn 1921 02 26 February 26 1921Died 2012 06 19 June 19 2012Academic career Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Writings and speeches 4 List of works 4 1 Business 4 2 Economics 4 3 Education 4 4 Entrepreneurship 4 5 Morals 4 6 Politics 4 7 On Mises 4 8 Miscellaneous 5 References 6 External linksEducation editPeterson earned a B S 1943 and Ph D 1952 degrees in economics from New York University 1 and an M S degree from Columbia University 1948 During World War II he also studied at the Harvard Business School under Navy sponsorship and attended a summer leave seminar at Oxford University During his academic career Peterson served as assistant to the dean associate professor and professor of economics in the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University where he was a colleague and friend of Ludwig von Mises John David Campbell professor of American business in the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona Scott L Probasco Jr professor of free enterprise and director Center for Economic Education the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Distinguished Burrows T and Mabel L Lundy Emeritus Professor of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina and a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation where he served as adjunct scholar 1 Career editHis experience in business and government included service as Economist and Assistant to the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the United States Steel Corporation Senior Economic Advisor to the United States Department of Commerce and economics speechwriter on the campaign staff of Richard Nixon Peterson has served as a consultant for General Electric General Motors Republic of the Ivory Coast Republic of South Vietnam Time Magazine Union Carbide Manufacturers Hanover Trust and Southern Company and other companies In January 1979 Peterson was appointed to be a member of the Federal Drafting Committee of the National Tax Limitation Committee Led by Nobel Laureate economist Milton Friedman this committee composed a draft of a constitutional amendment to limit the growth of the Federal budget In 1982 Peterson was sponsored by the U S Information Agency to lecture on supply side economics in Romania East Germany Ireland and Canada For this effort he won a letter of commendation from President Ronald Reagan In 1961 the McKinsey Foundation awarded first prize to Peterson for the best article of the year The Case for a North American Common Market published in Indiana University s Business Horizons In 1981 the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge gave Dr Peterson the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education In 1989 the Association of Private Enterprise Education named Dr Peterson as Distinguished Scholar In 1990 the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge awarded him the George Washington Medal of Honor In 1991 he was awarded an honorary degree by Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala In 1993 Campbell University conferred on him the Dean s Award for Excellence in Teaching In 2005 Peterson was awarded the Gary G Schlarbaum Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Human Liberty awarded by the Ludwig von Mises Institute where he was an adjunct scholar Writings and speeches editPeterson published articles in the Harvard Business Review The Freeman The Free Market Washington Times Monthly Labor Review The Christian Science Monitor New York Times Dun s Review Business Week Journal of Business Journal of Economic Literature Nihon Keizai Shimbun Tokyo Die 24t Farmand Oslo Australian Sydney Sunday Times London and others He wrote daily articles on Mises org and is the author of two tributes to Ludwig von Mises Thoughts and Memories and Mises A Turning Point For fourteen years he wrote a regular column for the Wall Street Journal entitled Reading for Business Apart from authoring monographs and books including The Great Farm Problem 1959 he contributed entries to McGraw Hill s Encyclopedia of Economics 1982 1992 He has appeared as a guest commentator on the national PBS TV show Nightly Business Report He was a member of the Brain Trust contributing a column to the Investor s Business Daily Peterson generally wrote about economics education and politics He praised capitalism quite often and stressed its necessity for a thriving society such as in his The Washington Times article Capitalism Appraised 2 Peterson also voiced his concern for present day education standards in writings such as his article in The Free Market titled School Values Public and Private where he states that America s worry over a general moral erosion in politics and society has coincided with ever more draconian federal control over education Many of his writings overlapped in his topics of interest mixing education with government and relating government to economics and capitalism Peterson lectured at the University of the Americas Mexico City Harvard University Princeton University University of Arizona University of Connecticut University of Virginia Florida State University Chattanooga State Northwood Institute Emory and Henry College Peace College Lenoir Rhyne College Wellesley College University of New Hampshire and others including various professional and trade associations Many of his speeches discussed topics regarding the Austrian school of economics following the ideas of Mises List of works editBusiness edit Is Business Administration 1981 Getting Results with Information May 28 1992 THe Washington Times Economics edit Who Also Pays Business Taxes Heritage Foundation and the Mises Institute The Bookshelf How to Curb Competition WHile Trying to Spur It March 1 1936 The Wall Street Journal The Legacy of Lord Keynes September 14 1959 British Society for Individual Freedom Freedom First Peterson s Law An economist s foray into the nature of money and the declining value thereof November 1959 Challenge The Magazine of Economic Affairs vol 8 no 2 Automation and Unemployment An Oft Exploded Myth Revives March 5 1962 Barron s The Other Revolution of 76 Fall 1973 Modern Age Who is the Real Employer The True Source of Jobs 1976 Chamber of Commerce of the United States In Defense of Millionaires February 1981 The Freeman Defending the Rich October 16 1986 The Chattanooga Times The Free Market Reader 1988 Mises Institute Take a Hard Look At Transfers Spring 1990 The Campbell Entrepreneur vol 13 no 1 The Business Outlook Short War Short Recession February 13 1991 Anchor Financial Group Meeting Raleigh NC America s Second Democracy April 4 1991 Campbell University Honors Banquet Bulging Budget Transfers June 29 1992 The Washington Times Capital Day 1998 May 1998 The Free Market vol 16 no 5 Free Markets The Status Quo vs America s Other Democracy January 23 1999 CaptiveAire meeting Tulsa OK Free Trade and Capitalism America s Other Democracy April 1 1999 Vital Speeches of the Day vol 65 no 12 Drumbeat Against Capitalism August 2 1999 Investor s Business Daily The Golden Rule and the Free Market c 2000 Economic Freedom Spreads Globally As Adam Smith s lessons Take Hold April 10 2000 Investor s Business Daily Capitalism Appraised A new look at mankind s greatest achievement July 3 2001 The Washington Times WHP Remarks Capital Research Center April 9 2002 The Free Market vol 20 no 9 Capitalism The Greatest Charity September 2002 The Free Market vol 20 no 9 When Government Is the Problem January 26 2003 The Washington Times America s Greatest Democracy July 29 2003 The Meaning of Market Democracy December 2003 The Free Market vol 21 no 12 A Self Defeating System The problem with welfare December 9 2003 The Washington Times Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy March 2004 Economic Club of Detroit The Power to Destroy April 1 2004 Free to Prosper Ranking countries liberty and growth August 31 2004 The Washington Times The Democracy of the Market November 2005 The Free Market vol 26 no 11 Economics in One Lesson With Apologies to Henry Hazlitt August 28 2006 Shaftesbury Conference John Locke Foundation World Peace Through World Trade November 20 2006 Disenfranchising America s Great Democracy March 29 2007 Peterson s Law of Inflation August 28 2007 America s Other Democracy Politics and Economics at Work April 3 2008 Two Manifestos Two Revolutions August 5 2008 Anti State Anti War Pro Market June 24 2009 The Washington Times The Accelerator and Say s Law December 8 2011 On Freedom and Free Enterprise Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises 1956 Capitalism Our Greatest Charity and Democracy Forward with Uneconomics Peterson s Law Featuring America s Other Democracy and the Forgotten Man Peterson s Law Or Why Things Go Wrong Postal Status Quo or Ayn Rand Millenium Who Really Pays Business Taxes Education edit School Values Public and Private April 1997 The Free Market vol 15 no 4 Public Education s Cardinal Sin April 22 2003 Campbell University Leave No Child Behind Capitalism reform in education January 27 2004 The Washington Times Entrepreneurship edit Entrepreneurship the Possible Dream November 1985 The Freeman Morals edit Natural Law and Its Law Breaker Extraordinary February 26 2004 Mencken vs Lincoln April 14 2009 Politics edit The Greatest Show on Earth August 11 1956 Time amp Tide Should We Trade With the Communists April 1956 Harvard Business Review vol 37 no 2 The Taproots of Political Corruption December 1990 The Freeman A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought Reviewed by Peterson May 1992 The Freeman Imperial Rights Regimen July 16 1992 The Washington Times Stoning Nixon May 1996 Rational Ignorance or Citizenship Education November 6 1997 Dallas Fed Lunch Remarks to Marriott Ballston VA Residents June 14 2001 The Forgotten Man How Americans Fare in Their Two Democracies June 22 2002 A Strategy for High Schoolers Young America s Foundation Arlington VA Freedom and Prosperity Together they are the coming thing December 17 2002 The Washington Times Huffington turned by the tide Author takes selective swipes at America s greedy February 26 2003 The Washington Times Strange bedfellows The liaison between politics and science November 4 2003 The Washington Times Constitutional Rights Preserving the Founders Intent April 20 2004 The Washington Times America s Other Democracy November 5 2004 The Muddle of the Road November 10 2004 Back to basics America s democratic origins December 27 2004 The Washington Times The Endless Muddle East Imbroglio Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace August 24 2006 Legacy Lost GOP s big government February 27 2007 The Washington Times More Liberty Means Less Government Our Founders Knew This Well reviewed by Peterson On Mises edit Ludwig von Mises Thoughts and Memories 1971 Toward Liberty Institute of Humane Studies Memories of Ludwig von Mises May 1987 The Free Market Mises Institute Discovering Mises A Turning Point November 13 2003 Mises in New York Archived 2013 11 13 at the Wayback Machine October 8 2005 The Economics of Fascism Mises in America 2009 Miscellaneous edit One Harlem Then the Other August 11 1984 The New York Times The Pilgrims Turkey of an Idea November 21 1990 For Dancers Only Remembering Swing April 1994 ChroniclesReferences edit a b c David Boaz William H Peterson RIP Cato Institute June 22 2012 William H Peterson Capitalism Appraised The Washington Times July 3 2001External links editRIP William Peterson from the Cato Institute RIP William Peterson from LewRockwell com Archived 2013 06 28 at the Wayback Machine Schlarbaum Award Acceptance Speech by William H Peterson Archived 2013 11 13 at the Wayback Machine William Peterson s Mises Daily Article Archive A Tribute to William H Peterson by Thomas DiLorenzo 1921 2012 Archived 2013 07 19 at the Wayback Machine Presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference on 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn Alabama A Tribute to William H Peterson 1921 2012 Presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference on 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn Alabama A Tribute to William H Peterson 1921 2012 Archived 2013 05 22 at the Wayback Machine Presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference on 21 March 2013 at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn Alabama Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title William H Peterson amp oldid 1188411343, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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