All Posts Tagged With: "agriculture"
Starved 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 remains [...]
Gas 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? It Just Ain’t So!
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 Smith, [...]
The 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 paragraph [...]
Feeling 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 | 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 [...]
Wheat 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 [...]
Free-Market Farming
Dr. Curtiss is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education.
An economic remedy for a political headache
An economist of national reputation once told me: “The trouble with agriculture is that it is a decadent business.” This came as something of a shock to one who had been raised on a good Illinois [...]
The Farm Problem
This article, under the title “The Wrong Track?” was first printed in The Prairie Farmer, February 19, 1955,
A County Agent fears that the farmers’ acceptance of subsidies will be used by government as proof that it has thereby acquired the right to control their lands
Washington is again ringing with debate about the farm program and [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
