All Posts Tagged With: "economic development"
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
By Jeffrey D. Sachs Reviewed by Jude Blanchette
1Mar2007 | agardner | 0 comments | ContinuedCentral Planning Comes to Main Street
Steven Greenhut (sgreenhut@ocregister.com) is senior editorial writer and columnist at the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif. He is author of Abuse of Power: How the Government Misuses Eminent Domain.
A casual reader could be forgiven for skimming through a front-page Los Angeles Times article from February 12 and thinking that the story was just [...]
The History of “Underdevelopment”
Perhaps the most important feature of the modern world is its sustained, intensive economic growth. This produces most of the other distinctive features of modernity. Although there were earlier episodes of such economic efflorescence (to use Jack Goldstones term), it was only with the industrial revolution of late eighteenth-century Britain that it became a permanent and prominent feature of the world economy. Following the advent of this transformative process, questions soon arose elsewhere. The first was that of how to achieve the same kind of growth and dynamism. Soon this led to further questions: why other parts of the world did not show these qualities and why their attempts to do so ended in failure.
1Jun2006 | Stephen Davies | 0 comments | ContinuedInstitutions and Development: The Case of China
James Dorn (jdorn@cato.org) is a China specialist and vice president for academic affairs at the Cato Institute. He is coeditor of China’s Future: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat? (Cato Institute, 2000).
An earlier version of this article appeared in Vital Speeches of the Day (November 15, 2005).
From a liberal perspective the goal of economic development is [...]
The Progressive Era’s Derailment of Classical-Liberal Evolution
Fred Smith is president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
It is true that where a considerable part of the costs incurred are external costs from the point of view of the acting individuals or firms, the economic calculation established by them is manifestly defective and their results deceptive. But this is not the outcome of alleged [...]
Globalization and Free Trade
Richard Ebeling is president of FEE. His latest book is Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom (Elgar).
Freedom of trade is really a very simple concept. Each individual should be at liberty to buy from and sell to whomever he wishes on mutually agreed-upon terms. Whether the partners to this trade live next door [...]
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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
