All Posts Tagged With: "Jeffrey Sachs"
Are High Taxes the Basis of Freedom and Prosperity?
In the November 2006 Scientific American, Jeffrey Sachs, economic consultant to governments and the UN, argues (yet again) for higher U.S. taxes and more government officials with ever-increasing powers over their subjects. These perennial and inevitable conclusions are hung (here) on a Nordic peg. According to Sachs, F. A. Hayek, “the Austrian-born free-market economist, . [...]
1Oct2007 | Sudha R. Shenoy | 9 comments | ContinuedThe End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
By Jeffrey D. Sachs Reviewed by Jude Blanchette
1Mar2007 | FEE Admin | 1 comment | ContinuedAid, Trade, and Institutional Quality in Africa
Joshua Hall is pursuing his Ph.D. in economics at West Virginia University. Matthew Hisrich is a senior policy fellow with the Flint Hills Center for Public Policy in Kansas. Screenwriter Richard Curtis received a great deal of attention for his 2005 movie The Girl in the Café. The film was the big-screen component of the [...]
1Jan2007 | and Joshua C. Hall | 0 comments | ContinuedBacking the Wrong Horse: How Private Schools Are Good for the Poor
James Tooley is professor of education policy at the University of Newcastle, director of the E. G.West Centre, and coauthor of “Private Education Is Good for the Poor: A Study of Private Schools Serving the Poor in Low-Income Countries” (Cato Institute). Last fall the High-Level Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly brought together more [...]
1May2006 | James Tooley | 8 comments | ContinuedMassive Foreign Aid Is the Solution to Africa’s Ills?
President Bush traveled to Africa in July. Those sympathetic to the President might say he went to show his charitable concern for the problems of Africa and his sincere care for the downtrodden of the world. But a less rose-tinted view might have shown an unprincipled but skillful political machine bolstering its image among centrist [...]
1Nov2003 | WILLIAM THOMAS | 0 comments | Continued-
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