All Posts Tagged With: "Europe"
Market 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 | ContinuedDr. Andrew Ure: Pioneer Free Trader
John Chodes is the communications director for the Libertarian Party of New York City. In 1846 England became the first major industrial country to end its centuries-old protectionist policies against imports from other nations. This was a revolutionary move. Free trade was much more than an economic policy. It reflected the philosophy of justice and [...]
1Oct1998 | John Chodes | 0 comments | ContinuedThe America We Lost
Mario Pei, now deceased, was Professor of Romance Philology at Columbia University. This essay appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of May 31, 1952, and was republished by the Foundation later that year. When I first came to America in 1908, I learned a new meaning of the word “liberty”—freedom from government. I did not [...]
1Mar1996 | Mario A. Pei | 2 comments | ContinuedPeace for Europe?
Mr. Watkins is an assistant editor for The Freeman. Since the end of the Second World War, there has been much discussion about European integration. What began as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951 developed into the European Union (EU) with the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in 1992. Unfortunately, the trend [...]
1Jul1995 | William J. Watkins Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomics on Trial
European Unemployment: The Age of Ignorance, Part II “This persistence of high unemployment in the European Community is a major puzzle.” —Charles R. Bean, “European Unemployment: A Survey,“ Journal of Economic Literature, June 1994 “Is This the Age of Ignorance—Or Enlightenment?”, my most controversial column, was published in the June 1994 issue of The [...]
1Jan1995 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | Continued-
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