All Posts Tagged With: "food prices"
Money and Inflation: What’s Going On in the World?
Are America and the world at risk for another inflationary episode similar to the 1970s and early 1980s? Or do current low rates of inflation portend low inflation for the foreseeable future? David Wessel revisited this question in his “Capital” column in the February 24, 2011, Wall Street Journal. He correctly stated that the Federal [...]
25May2011 | Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. | 6 comments | ContinuedStarved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa
The escalating price of oil, the world’s growing population, and its increasing demand for food have all received blame for rising worldwide food prices. What is often overlooked is that a significant portion of the world’s population is unable to feed itself—because of politics. That is the greater, more frightening problem. Today much of Africa [...]
2Apr2009 | Daniel Sacks | 1 comment | ContinuedEating Disorder: How Governments Raise Food Prices
Higher food prices may be frustrating Americans, but they are literally killing people in the least industrialized parts of the world. Hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people—who live close to starvation even in good years—are facing malnutrition and chronic hunger. The absolute poorest are facing death. In the 12 months leading to March [...]
1Sep2008 | Arthur E. Foulkes | 1 comment | ContinuedMaterial Progress Over the Past Millennium
E. Calvin Beisner is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, and the author of Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity and several other books applying Christian theology and ethics to political economy. An earlier version of this article appeared in World magazine. Reginald [...]
1Nov1999 | E. Calvin Beisner | 0 comments | ContinuedPredatory Unionism
Dr. DiLorenzo, this month’s guest editor, is Professor of Economics at Loyola College in Maryland. Many economists have long viewed unions as essentially cartels of workers which collude to push their wages above free-market levels. As Texas A&M University labor economist Morgan Reynolds has explained: “Unions are fundamentally cartels—groups of producers with sectional interests diametrically [...]
1Jan1996 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 2 comments | Continued-
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