All Posts Tagged With: "apartheid"
Indigenous African Free-Market Liberalism
Africa remains an enigmatic paradox: a continent rich in mineral resources yet so desperately poor. But the paradox is only superficial: Africa is poor because she is not free. Only 10 of the 54 African countries can be labeled economic success stories: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Uganda, and South Africa. This [...]
24Aug2011 | George B. N. Ayittey | 5 comments | ContinuedHow Free Markets Break Down Discrimination
One of my favorite lines in the classic movie The Magnificent Seven comes when a traveling salesman and his partner offer to pay the local undertaker to haul a dead Indian to boot hill. The undertaker refuses. He’d like to oblige, he explains, but the townsfolk are so prejudiced against burying Indians alongside whites that [...]
1Apr2008 | David R. Henderson | 3 comments | ContinuedChina’s Peasants Suffer Under Apartheid
China operates an apartheid system that divides its citizens into separate worlds according to whether they were born in rural or urban areas. After reforms in South Africa and the collapse of the Soviet Union, few other countries have residency controls. While world opinion rightly denounced apartheid in South Africa, few complaints were registered against [...]
1Jun2002 | Christopher Lingle | 2 comments | Continued-
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