Gary M. Galles
Senior Fellow
Dr. Gary Galles is a Professor of Economics at Pepperdine.
His research focuses on public finance, public choice, the theory of the firm, the organization of industry and the role of liberty including the views of many classical liberals and America’s founders.
His books include Pathways to Policy Failure, Faulty Premises, Faulty Policies, Apostle of Peace, and Lines of Liberty.
Books by Gary Galles
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Fear of Hobgoblins Doesn’t Justify Zoning
“Zoning gives government massive power, which has been used arbitrarily. Self-interest, self-selection and differing transportation and infrastructure needs resolve many scare stories when property rights are defended.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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How “Buy American” Means Not Buying American
“The Jones Act has produced something much more like extinction than preservation of critical capacities, making American ocean shipping capacity a seeming candidate for the Endangered Species Act.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Questioning Policy Miracles
“Proponents may be so committed to their policy conclusions (typically because they advance their own self-interest) that they go to great lengths to avoid careful thinking about the supposed miracles their arguments need.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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The Value of Federalism for Our Freedom
“Lovers of liberty and freedom need to rediscover the force of federalism in resisting the ever-growing reach of centralized political determination, which is tyranny, even if it is tyranny of the majority.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Like Carter, unlike Coolidge
“It is time we looked past the obscurity and calumny that has been thrown over Coolidge’s record and ideas so that we can rediscover his wisdom. In doing so, the vast shortcomings of the Biden administration become even clearer.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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The Economic Way of Seeing
“Recognizing the ability to see what isn’t there as something that makes many of economics’ graphical tools so useful can ground the understanding of those who teach economics, as well as those who take it.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Not So Fast on the Fast Act
“The fact that so many workers in the industry have been unwilling to voluntarily ‘buy’ the union agenda for themselves is not a reason for giving unions more power, but is reason to question their claims that they will improve workers’ lives.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Misjudging Nudging
“The problem is not that we are allowed to make too many of our own choices. The problem is government, and the real solution is the opposite of what nudgers propose: expanding liberty.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Uncivil Cause or Effect?
“If I felt violations of my constitutional rights were being proposed or imposed, those violations of ‘the highest law of the land,’ not the civility with which I object, are the core of the problem.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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The Democracy Illusion
“America is already far beyond what can be justified as advancing our mutual well-being. And our government seems determined to double down on how far it oversteps, a strategy which necessarily shrinks liberty, and the benefits only liberty can provide.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Fear of Hobgoblins Doesn’t Justify Zoning
“Zoning gives government massive power, which has been used arbitrarily. Self-interest, self-selection and differing transportation and infrastructure needs resolve many scare stories when property rights are defended.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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•
How “Buy American” Means Not Buying American
“The Jones Act has produced something much more like extinction than preservation of critical capacities, making American ocean shipping capacity a seeming candidate for the Endangered Species Act.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Questioning Policy Miracles
“Proponents may be so committed to their policy conclusions (typically because they advance their own self-interest) that they go to great lengths to avoid careful thinking about the supposed miracles their arguments need.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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The Value of Federalism for Our Freedom
“Lovers of liberty and freedom need to rediscover the force of federalism in resisting the ever-growing reach of centralized political determination, which is tyranny, even if it is tyranny of the majority.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Like Carter, unlike Coolidge
“It is time we looked past the obscurity and calumny that has been thrown over Coolidge’s record and ideas so that we can rediscover his wisdom. In doing so, the vast shortcomings of the Biden administration become even clearer.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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•
The Economic Way of Seeing
“Recognizing the ability to see what isn’t there as something that makes many of economics’ graphical tools so useful can ground the understanding of those who teach economics, as well as those who take it.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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•
Not So Fast on the Fast Act
“The fact that so many workers in the industry have been unwilling to voluntarily ‘buy’ the union agenda for themselves is not a reason for giving unions more power, but is reason to question their claims that they will improve workers’ lives.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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•
Misjudging Nudging
“The problem is not that we are allowed to make too many of our own choices. The problem is government, and the real solution is the opposite of what nudgers propose: expanding liberty.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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•
Uncivil Cause or Effect?
“If I felt violations of my constitutional rights were being proposed or imposed, those violations of ‘the highest law of the land,’ not the civility with which I object, are the core of the problem.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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The Democracy Illusion
“America is already far beyond what can be justified as advancing our mutual well-being. And our government seems determined to double down on how far it oversteps, a strategy which necessarily shrinks liberty, and the benefits only liberty can provide.” ~ Gary M. Galles