All Posts Tagged With: "Europe"
Shoot the Shorts
Rather than indulging in Schadenfreude, we in the United States would do well to apply European lessons to our own troubles.
22Aug2011 | Warren C. Gibson | 11 comments | ContinuedWere You Born on the Wrong Continent? How the European Model Can Help You Get a New Life
I like to compare the rival coalitions of organized capital represented by the major parties to two farmers. One farmer thinks it’s more profitable in the long run to work his livestock in moderation and feed them well. The other figures he’ll come out ahead by just working them to death and replacing them. I [...]
25May2011 | Kevin A. Carson | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Threat of Tax Centralization Hovers Over Europe
Are Europe’s politicians about to undo one of the most decisive safeguards for freedom on the Old Continent? These days the talk in European chancelleries is all about clamping down on citizens who seek to protect their wealth in more amicable environments. The European Union and its predecessors have been progressively centralizing tax systems in [...]
1Dec2008 | Pierre Bessard | 0 comments | ContinuedEurope: Still a Laggard Economy
There have been increasing signs of optimism from European economy watchers. After some years in the doldrums, with slow growth and rising unemployment, things appear to be looking up: labor markets are more efficient; growth was good for 2006; and the euro is doing well against the dollar after years of weakness following its inception [...]
1Mar2007 | Norman Barry | 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 | ContinuedThe Irish Miracle
Karl Sigfrid is a graduate student in business administration and economics at Stockholm University in Sweden. European advocates of the freedom philosophy are rarely enthusiastic about their own continent—a world center for high taxes and overregulated markets. When asked to pick their favorite society, they will usually select Hong Kong or—less often—the United States. Too [...]
1Apr2004 | Karl Sigfrid | 0 comments | ContinuedPensions: A Wordwide, But Avoidable Crisis
Almost every country in the economically advanced world is worried about nationalized pensions. American statisticians have some grisly fun predicting on what day of the week and in what year the Social Security system will finally go bust. Or whether Medicare will be broke first. And most young Americans think that there is as much chance of picking up Social Security when they retire as there is of a sighting of Elvis.
1Oct2003 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedNever Enough?
President Bush’s proposed $48 billion military spending increase for next year exceeds what any other nation devotes to the military. In five years the Bush administration would have the government spend $100 billion more annually than was proposed by the Clinton administration. But for some people, no amount will ever be enough. “Neither the administration [...]
1Sep2002 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Rise of the West
Throughout almost the entire span of human history, material privation and chronic insecurity were the norm. Not even those at the peaks of social status and political power could enjoy the creature comforts and consumer delights that “poor” people take for granted in the West today. At times, certain populations fared somewhat better—in ancient Greece [...]
1Jul2002 | Robert Higgs | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Great Breakthrough and Its Cause
Reviewed by Robert Lawson Julian Simon’s final work before his untimely death is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking. He wants to explain why at least some parts of humanity, after millennia of virtual stagnation, suddenly began a rapid increase in living standards around the years 1750-1800. Simon labels this phenomenon Sudden Modern Progress (SMP). His [...]
1Jul2002 | Julian L. Simon edited by Tim | 1 comment | ContinuedA Maturing Europe?
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Although the Bush administration has promised not to withdraw unilaterally from the Balkans, leading Europeans remain nervous about the administration. They recognize his reluctance to continue their continent’s free defense ride, especially as [...]
1Oct2001 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedPhony Marketeers
Contributing editor Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s Press). Which political movements benefited most from the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union? Certainly not libertarianism or the free-market [...]
1Sep2001 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedReflections on a Ravaged Century
Several years ago, R. J. Rummel’s book Death by Government documented the horrifying numbers of people killed by government during the twentieth century—more than 100 million. Governments have always been the leading cause of violent death, but in the last century, the toll far surpassed anything previously. Why? In his new book Reflections on a [...]
1Sep2000 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Evolution of Capitalism
A few centuries ago things looked pretty hopeless for Europe, at least according to “common wisdom” now accepted in political circles. The region was splintered among hundreds of local principalities with no unifying government, no common currency, and no common language. If today’s typical political scientist had had to guess where a system of market capitalism would have arisen, it is doubtful he would have considered Europe a likely candidate.
1Jun2000 | James Peron | 2 comments | ContinuedGermany and the Third Way
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). At least two things exercise political and economic commentators on Europe: the meaning and policy significance of the “third way” and the current malaise in the German economy. [...]
1Nov1999 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | ContinuedAmerica’s Forgotten War
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. The war that did the most to transform the world for the worse was formally settled 80 years ago. Not World War [...]
1Mar1999 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedMarket Reforms Score Big in Soccer
L. Jacobo Rodríguez is assistant director of the Project on Global Economic Liberty at the Cato Institute. This article is a revised and expanded version of an article published in the Wall Street Journal Europe on July 16, 1998. Last summer, European nations once again asserted their dominance of world soccer at the World Cup [...]
1Dec1998 | L. Jacobo Rodrguez | 0 comments | Continued-
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