All Posts Tagged With: "foreign investment"
The Right Amount of Manufacturing
Mark Perry, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, recently pointed out that in 2009 the U.S. economy had the world’s largest manufacturing sector. (The most recent data show that China’s sector edged out the United States because of our slow economic recovery.) Every year since 2004 U.S. manufacturing output, in constant 2005 dollars, [...]
22Jun2011 | David R. Henderson | 7 comments | ContinuedWhy Globalization Works
Look at the foes of economic globalization and you’ll find a curious coalition. Some are left-wingers who oppose globalization because they oppose capitalism. But others are right-wing protectionists who don’t like foreign competition. The strength of the anti-globalist coalition has waxed and waned over time, but there is still a large number of people who [...]
13Jul2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedEnergy Policy: Wisdom or Waste?
Roger McKinney (rdmckinney@cox.net) is senior analyst for a quasigovernmental health-care agency in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We can’t help ourselves. Americans crave the black gold that pulses through the concrete arteries of our nation’s transportation system. In the opinion of many, we have hocked our future for a cheap fix with a drug that abandons our nation [...]
1May2007 | Roger McKinney | 5 comments | ContinuedOffshore Prosperity
Quick—without reading the next paragraph of this article, name the five largest financial centers in the world. Answers: London,Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands. New York is the financial capital of one of the largest and wealthiest nations in the world; London, the former capital of a globe-spanning empire and still the [...]
1Sep2005 | Andrew P. Morriss | 4 comments | ContinuedFree Trade and the Climb Out of Poverty
Over the thousands of years of human history, poverty and early death have been the norm, with comfort and longevity the exceptions. The improvements in the human condition, at least on average, seen over the course of the twentieth century dwarf the improvements of the previous centuries combined. By virtually any measure one can imagine, [...]
1Mar2005 | Steven Horwitz | 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 | ContinuedDeficits Do Matter
Hans Sennholz served as president of the Foundation for Economic Education from 1992 to 1997. At the time of his retirement, FEE’s Board of Trustees honored him with the title president emeritus. He was chairman of the department of economics at Grove City College for many years. This article is reprinted from the December 1986 [...]
1Mar2004 | Hans F. Sennholz | 8 comments | ContinuedWhy Economies Grow
Aaron Schavey is a policy analyst in the Center for International Trade and Economics (CITE) at the Heritage Foundation. One of the consequences of living in an affluent society such as the United States is that the poverty of the majority of the world is often overlooked. For instance, a recent report from the Organization [...]
1Nov2001 | Aaron Schavey | 2 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Foreign Investment
James Madison is a systems analyst at an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. This year, as the Czech people celebrate the tenth anniversary of the end of communism, the capital city of Prague serves as a shining example of what happens when the free market displaces economic planning. Each morning on the Charles Bridge in [...]
1Dec1999 | James Madison | 1 comment | ContinuedChina’s Flirtation with Keynesian Economics
China’s economy has made enormous progress since modernization began in 1978 under the direction of Deng Xiaoping. However, while no one expects the transition from communism toward market-based economies to be painless, the full truth is much more brutal in that China’s economic future may be rather bleak. After nearly 50 years of experimenting with [...]
1Dec1999 | Christopher Lingle | 1 comment | ContinuedA New Scheme
Dr. Harper is a member of the staff of the Foundation for Economic Education. A new scheme is afoot by which the people of the United States—rich and poor alike are likely to become trapped into financing national socialism abroad. This is the pattern: It all starts innocently enough. Private investors here would gladly pour [...]
1Feb1956 | F. A. Harper | 0 comments | Continued-
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