All Posts Tagged With: "agriculture"
Tough on Immigration Is Tough on Economic Growth
Not to be outdone by Arizona’s tough immigration law of 2010, Alabama and Georgia legislators passed their own immigration bills in 2011. The bills received a great deal of media attention because they were widely touted as good for growth and job creation, and were harsher on illegal immigrants than Arizona’s law. In a New [...]
4Jan2012 | Scott Beaulier | 21 comments | ContinuedLocal Food Makes Strange Dining Companions
Ironically enough, while many so-called liberals express skepticism about laissez-faire economies, they are the first to indignantly resist intrusion by bureaucrats into local farmers’ markets.
1Jun2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 14 comments | ContinuedStarved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
The escalating price of oil, the world’s growing population, and its increasing demand for food have all received blame for rising worldwide food prices. What is often overlooked is that a significant portion of the world’s population is unable to feed itself—because of politics. That is the greater, more frightening problem. Today much of Africa [...]
2Apr2009 | Daniel Sacks | 1 comment | ContinuedGas Prices: The Latest Excuse to Reengineer Society
As someone who commutes 16 miles each way to work in a gas-guzzling sports car along the LA-area freeways, I’ve been less-than-amused by the nearly $5 a gallon I must pay for the premium fuel that keeps my mid-life-crisis-mobile running. Yet despite the misery of high prices, I’ve taken a certain joy in watching the [...]
1Nov2008 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedWe Have Enough Globalization?
Jude Blanchette is a freelance writer living in Shanghai. The debate over free trade is, and has been for over 200 years, quite contentious. In reading over the historical debates, it often seems as if no ground has been made by the advocates of a global, borderless economy. Indeed, this is what makes reading Adam [...]
1Jun2007 | Jude Blanchette | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Facts about World Hunger
Jim Peron is editor of Free Exchange, a monthly newsletter, and the owner of Aristotle’s Books in Auckland, New Zealand. The headline in the New York Times screamed: “World Hunger Increasing, New U.N. Report Finds.” Coming as it did just two days before Thanksgiving, the irony couldn’t be lost on the average reader. The opening [...]
1Sep2004 | James Peron | 2 comments | ContinuedFeeling Their Oats
How inspiring it was to see nearly two dozen representatives of the poorest nations’ governments walk out of September’s World Trade Organization meeting to protest the rich countries’ subsidies to farmers. I don’t say this lightly. Governments rarely inspire anything in me. But here was a group of governments that finally put diplomatic niceties aside [...]
1Dec2003 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedA Carson Sampler
Editor’s Note: Long-time contributing editor Clarence Carson died in April. In memory of this friend of FEE, we reproduce below excerpts from three of his many articles for The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. “The Property Basis of Rights,” September 1980 There has been an attempt to separate property rights from other rights in this century. [...]
1Jul2003 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSocialism in Retreat
Free-market economists have argued for decades that interventionist government policies inadvertently lead to negative long-term consequences that far outweigh the perceived benefits. This has resulted, of course, in cries from the political left that advocates of capitalism care nothing about the indigent, needy, or otherwise downtrodden. So it is with bittersweet satisfaction that one sees [...]
1Oct2002 | Scott McPherson | 3 comments | ContinuedPlum Deal
At 78, my mother has decided to embark on a new career. She’s going to become a plum grower. She’s not actually going to grow any plums, but she’s going to be a “plum grower” nonetheless, and I really couldn’t be more proud. To display such entrepreneurial spirit at her age is truly admirable. Of [...]
1Jul2002 | P. Gardner Goldsmith | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming by Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling
Cato Institute · 2000 · 224 pages · $10.95 paperback Reviewed by Bonner Cohen “There’s no question that global warming is a real phenomenon, that it is occurring,” EPA administrator Christie Todd Whitman told the press in February. “and while scientists can’t predict where the droughts will occur, where the flooding will occur precisely or [...]
1Oct2001 | Bonner Cohen | 0 comments | ContinuedMonster
Rule No. 1 for slaying the Hydra: slay it. Don’t just cut off one—or even a few—of its heads. That’s not good enough: the head might grow back. Kill it dead. How many times do we need to be taught that lesson before we learn it? During the presidency of Ronald Reagan the Department of [...]
1Feb1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedShould There Be a Carbon Subsidy?
The Clinton administration has committed the United States to a massive reduction in the use of energy. That is the implication of its signing the United Nations Global Climate Treaty in Kyoto, Japan. If the Senate approves, we will have to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions drastically CO2 is emitted naturally, of course, by everything [...]
1Jul1998 | Roy Cordato | 0 comments | ContinuedProperty Rights and Law Among the Ancient Greeks
Mr. Rehmke is the director of educational programs at the Free Enterprise Institute in Houston. Greek art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and politics clearly mark the beginning of Western civilization. But the Greek contribution to the Western world runs far deeper than its intellectual and artistic accomplishments, its stunning architecture, and its masterful works of philosophy [...]
1Feb1997 | Gregory F. Rehmke | 3 comments | ContinuedOn Keynes as a Practical Economist
Dr. Simon is the author of The State of Humanity and The Ultimate Resource. John Maynard Keynes’s contemporaries thought that he was the cleverest mortal of the century (putting aside such immortals of physical science as Einstein). Bertrand Russell said of Keynes’s intellect that it was “the sharpest and clearest that I have ever known. [...]
1Aug1996 | Julian L. Simon | 0 comments | ContinuedWithdrawing from the Soil Bank
Mr. Butler, except for two years in the Army, has operated a 275-acre “home farm” in the corn-belt since 1947. This article is based upon a discussion last February before the Rotary Club of Ottawa, Illinois. Three policies are embodied in the farm programs now being discussed to aid agriculture. We must recognize that all [...]
1Jun1956 | Marten Butler | 0 comments | ContinuedWheat and World Trade
Mr. Paul de Heresy, economist and former member of the Wheat Advisory Committee, London, is the author of World Wheat Planning. Oxford University Press, 1940. Though agriculture is the very foundation of all human activity, it constitutes only one part of man’s economic life. It should therefore be brought into conformity with the general economic [...]
1Apr1956 | Paul de Heresy | 4 comments | Continued-
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