All Posts Tagged With: "economic freedom"
Aid, Trade, and Institutional Quality in Africa
Joshua Hall is pursuing his Ph.D. in economics at West Virginia University. Matthew Hisrich is a senior policy fellow with the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Kansas. Screenwriter Richard Curtis received a great deal of attention for his 2005 movie The Girl in the Café. The film was the big-screen component of the [...]
1Jan2007 | Joshua C. Hall | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Roots of Poverty in Latin America
Few things stand out in such stark contrast as the economic and social differences between the United States and the countries of Latin America. Since gaining its independence from Great Britain in the late eighteenth century, the United States has offered virtually unlimited opportunity for a growing population, along with a rising standard of living [...]
14Dec2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Effrontery of the "Open Space" Movement
New Hampshire is called the “Live Free or Die”
state. It has garnered such a reputation as a bastion
of freedom that the Porcupine members
of the Free State Project selected it as the place to which
they would like to relocate in order to live more independently
and more productively.
Why Freedom Matters
The future of civilization depends on preserving and spreading freedom. As a moral principle, freedom means we ought to respect private property rights, broadly understood as the rights to life, liberty, and property. As a practical matter, when private property rights are protected by law, individuals will be free to trade for mutual gain and [...]
1Jul2005 | James A. Dorn | 0 comments | ContinuedIntervention Explains Economic Success?
On the first day of an introductory statistics class a student is likely to learn the maxim “correlation isn’t causation.” Simply put, the correlation (a statistical relationship) between two variables doesn’t mean that one caused the other. That the sun rises when roosters crow does not mean that roosters cause the sun to rise. To [...]
1Jun2005 | Jude Blanchette | 5 comments | ContinuedEconomic Freedom: The Path to Development
Economic development has historically been exceptional rather than typical. As Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has observed in The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, capitalism has been successful mainly in the West. Consequently, there are tremendous income disparities around the world. In 2000, real income per person [...]
1Apr2005 | Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedAyn Rand: A Centennial Appreciation
This essay is derived from a more comprehensive paper written for the forthcoming anthology, edited by Edward Younkins, Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Philosophical and Literary Masterpiece. Born in Russia on February 2, 1905, the late novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand would eventually emigrate to the United States and make an indelible mark on intellectual history. [...]
1Feb2005 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 0 comments | ContinuedI, Liberal
In October a few of us at FEE traveled all the way to Tbilisi, Georgia, one of the former Soviet Union’s imperial possessions, to put on a two-day student seminar in the political economy of freedom. Georgia is a scenic country with gracious people. We enjoyed warm hospitality throughout our visit. The Georgians are struggling [...]
1Feb2005 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedWhere in the World Can You Find Economic Freedom?
Late 2003 saw the release of the most recent editions of two publications that rank the nations of the world according to their degrees of economic freedom. The Fraser Institute, located in British Columbia, put out the eighth edition of its Economic Freedom of the World and the Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal published [...]
1Sep2004 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economic Causes of War
Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was the foremost Austrian economist of the twentieth century, an adviser to FEE from the time of its founding in 1946, and the author of Human Action, Socialism, and The Theory of Money and Credit. This is the major part of a lecture delivered in Orange County, California, in October 1944. [...]
1Apr2004 | Ludwig von Mises | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Nineteenth-Century Americans Responded to Government Corruption
James Rolph Edwards is an associate professor of economics at Montana State University-Northern. From its origin as a distinct secular scientific discipline with the French Physiocratic school in the middle of the eighteenth century, and the British classical school that followed, economics had a pro-market, limited-government orientation. Indeed, intellectual historians and political philosophers often refer [...]
1Apr2004 | James Rolph Edwards | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Fallacies of Distributism
Thomas Woods holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and is assistant professor of history at Suffolk Community College (SUNY) in Brentwood, New York. In certain disaffected pockets of the political left and right, more and more voices can be heard on behalf of an economic and social system known as distributism. According to [...]
1Nov2003 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 3 comments | ContinuedMassive Foreign Aid Is the Solution to Africa’s Ills?
President Bush traveled to Africa in July. Those sympathetic to the President might say he went to show his charitable concern for the problems of Africa and his sincere care for the downtrodden of the world. But a less rose-tinted view might have shown an unprincipled but skillful political machine bolstering its image among centrist [...]
1Nov2003 | WILLIAM THOMAS | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Economic Foundation of Freedom
The late Howard Buffett was a U.S. representative from Nebraska (1943–1949 and 1951–1953). This article, condensed from a lecture at Midland College in Fremont, Nebraska, is reprinted from The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, December 1956. For more information on Buffett see Joseph R. Stromberg, “Howard Homan Buffett: Old Rightist Extraordinaire” at www.antiwar.com/stromberg/s042401.html. A clear understanding [...]
1Sep2003 | Howard Buffett | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Review: The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization, by Patrick J. Buchanan
The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization by Patrick J. Buchanan St. Martin’s Press • 2002 • 308 pages • $25.95 Reviewed by Daniel T. Griswold Give Pat Buchanan his due: The man can write. In his latest book, The Death of the West, he unleashes [...]
29Jan2003 | Daniel Griswold | 0 comments | ContinuedTechnology in Perspective
What role does technology play in creating prosperity? Recently, I was involved in a heated e-mail debate on this question. Although technology is unquestionably important, it is not the key to prosperity. Much more fundamental and vital is the institution of private property fashioned and enforced by a genuine rule of law. Those who disagree [...]
1Jan2003 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedWe’re All Rawlsians Now!
In the 1970s Richard Nixon famously remarked, “We’re all Keynesians now.” Fortunately, the president overestimated the long-run influence of John Maynard Keynes’s ideas among economists. For modern philosophers, it might be appropriate to rephrase Nixon’s line and say, “We’re all Rawlsians now.” John Rawls, the Harvard University philosophy professor, truly has had as much influence [...]
1Jun2002 | Robert A. Lawson | 2 comments | Continued-
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