All Posts Tagged With: "Italy"
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 | ContinuedPatently Unnecessary?
The idea that government should issue patents for inventions is odd on its face. How can someone claim an exclusive right in a “practical application” of nature’s principles? Of course, an inventor can have a right to an object. But a right to bar others from using the application embodied in that object? That’s hard [...]
1Apr2006 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Vatican and the Free Market
Dr. Goodman is president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a research institute founded in 1983 and internationally known for its studies on public policy issues. The NCPA is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. An unusual event took place in Rome earlier this year. A group of pro-free enterprise intellectuals assembled at the Vatican to [...]
1Oct1996 | John C. Goodman | 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 | 1 comment | Continued-
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