Archive for Sudha R. Shenoy

author photo

Are High Taxes the Basis of Freedom and Prosperity?

In the November 2006 Scientific American, Jeffrey Sachs, economic consultant to governments and the UN, argues (yet again) for higher U.S. taxes and more government officials with ever-increasing powers over their subjects. These perennial and inevitable conclusions are hung (here) on a Nordic peg.
According to Sachs, F. A. Hayek, “the Austrian-born free-market economist, . . [...]

1Oct2007 | Sudha R. Shenoy | 2 comments | Continued

Hong Kong: A Case Study in Market Development

Planners and reformers rarely recognize that freedom is essential to sound growth.

21Nov2009 | Sudha R. Shenoy | 0 comments | Continued

The Coming Serfdom in India

And a more recent graduate from the London School, now returned to her native India, lends credence to Dr. Bauer’s conclusions.

21Nov2009 | Sudha R. Shenoy | 0 comments | Continued

On the Redistribution of Incomes

Miss Shenoy, of India, offers some provocative views of the harmful consequences of the compulsory redistribution of incomes.

21Nov2009 | Sudha R. Shenoy | 0 comments | Continued

Selective Justice

Miss Shenoy, from Ahmedabad, India, is a B.Sc. (Econ.) student at the London School of Economics.
The essence of the argument for "social" justice is that the same rules that apply to everyone else need not be applied to one minority—the "rich." The rich, because they are rich, ought to be called upon to pay differential [...]

21Nov2009 | Sudha R. Shenoy | 0 comments | Continued

Statism and The Free Market

Miss Shenoy is a student of St. Xavier’s Col­lege (Gujarat University), Ahmedabad, India.
Economic problems loom large in the minds of many people today. Scholar and man in the street alike feel themselves deeply in­volved in questions having to do with the production and distribu­tion of worldly goods. But despite the intense interest in the sub­ject, [...]

21Nov2009 | Sudha R. Shenoy | 0 comments | Continued