All Posts Tagged With: "European Union"

The Euro: The Folly of Political Currency

The financial markets continue to surge and collapse based on the latest news from Europe. As of this writing, the big events are Slovakia’s unwillingness to contribute to a bailout fund and the failure of Dexia, a French-Belgian bank with assets of almost $700 billion. As the sovereign debt crisis has intensified in the last [...]

4Jan2012 | Robert P. Murphy | 3 comments | Continued

The New Financial Imperialism

The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia defines imperialism as “the policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations. Because imperialism always involves the use of power, often in the form of military force, it is widely considered morally objectionable, and the term accordingly has [...]

20May2010 | Robert Stewart | 3 comments | Continued

The 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 | Continued

Europe: 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 | Continued

The Euro versus Currency Competition

It is now four years since the euro was introduced as a circulating currency in parts of the European Union. Both Europeans and others are becoming increasingly used to a single money in much of the continent. If the euro remains in use for another five or ten years people may well look back at [...]

1Jan2007 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued

On Misplaced Concreteness in Social Theory

The following piece will not be as abstruse as its title suggests. Rather, it results from the simple observation that, time and time again, some harmful outcome or process commonly attributed to the everyday workings of the market economy actually does exist, but it exists in the realm of the government and politics. Politicians and [...]

1May2006 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 0 comments | Continued

The European Union and the Interventionist State

According to a public-opinion survey released in January, almost nine out of every ten citizens of European Union (EU) member nations know either little or nothing of the draft constitution for Europe, which would further centralize political power and control over their lives. Yet in spite of this pervasive ignorance, 49 percent said they favor [...]

1Mar2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | Continued

Estonia Moves to Liberty

Contributing editor Norman Barry (norman.barry@buckingham.ac.uk) is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the U.K. He is the author of An Introduction to Modern Political Theory (St. Martin’s) and Business Ethics (Macmillan). We have read a lot about former Soviet regimes struggling to shake off the last remnants of communism. [...]

1May2004 | Norman Barry | 0 comments | Continued

The 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 | Continued

Yes or No to the Euro?

Karl Sigfrid is a graduate student in business administration and economics at Stockholm University in Sweden. Since many economists are skeptical about the new euro currency, European politicians have decided to make the issue about something other than economics. Some claim that the euro is a currency for peace, referring to the fact that the [...]

1Jul2003 | Karl Sigfrid | 3 comments | Continued

The Dubious Blessing of EU Membership

At their recent top meeting in Copenhagen, the leaders of the European Union (EU) finally decided to accept ten new members by 2004. The countries to join the EU will be Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta, and Cyprus. Most were under the Soviet Union’s control during the cold war, [...]

19Apr2003 | Karl Sigfrid | 0 comments | Continued

A 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 | Continued

Phony 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 | Continued

There’s No Philadelphia in Europe

The late Norman Barry was professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom and was the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). The member states of the European Union, in their struggles to find some form of international authority, are going through debates that have a strange resonance [...]

1Feb1999 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | Continued

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