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Globalization: Extending the Market and Human Well-Being
Much of the prosperity of today’s world arises from the division of labor. Globalization, by extending the market’s scope to the entire world, enables the division of labor to become as developed as the current world population allows. However, to be truly in the interests of consumers and a boon to economic prosperity, globalization needs to occur spontaneously through the workings of the unhampered free market. Government attempts to meddle with this process—even with the sincere intent to facilitate or accelerate it—will only undermine its efficacy at benefiting us all.
1Apr2009 | Gennady Stolyarov II | 2 comments | ContinuedA Man to Remember
June 4, 2004, was a significant date for all who care for the history and cause of human liberty. It marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of a great champion of freedom, a man who wrought a revolution not only in his own land but worldwide. The man was Richard Cobden. Born in Sussex [...]
1Dec2004 | Stephen Davies | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Illusion of Collective Relevance? To the Editor: I read with interest Christopher Mayer’s article “Illusion of Control” (September 2001), in which he attempted to criticize the notion of economic forecasting. While few would dispute the claim that complex forecasts are not simple, Mayer used seemingly irrelevant statistics to make his case, and in doing so [...]
1Jan2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedLessons of History: The Great Irish Famine
History is a subject that often arouses strong emotions. What seems to some people to be a topic of limited academic interest is for others the source of deeply held and passionate feelings. The task of the historian is to try to establish, as dispassionately as possible, what actually happened in a given time and [...]
1Sep2001 | Stephen Davies | 1 comment | ContinuedTrade and the Rise of Freedom
Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. This is adapted from a paper presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference on “’The History of Liberty” at Auburn University, January 29, 2000. It is no exaggeration to say that trade is the keystone of modern civilization. As Murray Rothbard wrote, “The [...]
1Jun2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade, edited by Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
By the mid-1800s, socialists had initiated an attempt to show that the industrial revolution and concomitant rise of free trade had worsened the lives of British workers. Great Britain’s adoption of free trade internationally with the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 only made detractors more determined to show that a society built on [...]
1Apr1997 | Gene Smiley | 0 comments | Continued-
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