Insatiable Government

by Garet Garrett, Bruce Ramsey (Editor)

A collection of Garet Garrett s writing over a twenty-eight-year period focuses on his bedrock idea of the self-reliant individual and government s penchant for unrestrained growth.

Genres: Philosophy

300 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Garet Garrett was born in 1878 in Illinois. By 1903, he had become a well known writer for the Sun newspaper (1833–1950) in New York. In 1911, he wrote a fairly successful book, Where the Money Grows and Anatomy of the Bubble. In 1916, at the age of 38, Garrett became the executive editor of the New York Tribune, after having worked as a financial writer for The New York Times, the Saturday Evening Post, and The Wall Street Journal. From 1920 to 1933, his primary focus was on writing books.
Between 1920 and 1932 Garrett wrote eight books, including The American Omen in 1928 and A Bubble That Broke the World in 1932. He also wrote regular columns for several business and financial publications.

Reviews

[Stuart Dean · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of essays expounding on the virtues of laissez-faire economics and critiquing the failures of planned economies. Covers the steel industry, the railroad industry, and agriculture, and how they devolved from vibrant individually run enterprises into moribund government welfare schemes. Other subjects include how the Treaty of Versailles led to the Great Depression and how the Great Depression ended in the rest of the world by 1932 but was given new life in the U.S. by the New Deal.

Again I will mention a constant source of irritation. In the end notes at the end of chapters are repeatedly noted congressmen and senators with the years of their births and deaths listed. Far too often the year of their last day in office corresponds with their last year above ground. Not what Jefferson had in mind when he was writing about a citizen legislature. Not at all.

[Craig Bolton]

"Insatiable Government and Other Old-Right Commentaries, 1923-1950 by Garet Garrett (2005)"