All Posts Tagged With: "New Zealand"
“Big Meat” and Big Government
Ranchers are a fairly independent bunch. We don’t like overweening authority and prefer to fend for ourselves. We also find few things more objectionable than sitting endlessly indoors. Nevertheless, 2,000 of us did just that several months ago in the ballroom of Colorado State University. Our ballroom session wasn’t very romantic, I’m afraid. While most [...]
25May2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomic Freedom: The Path to Development
Economic development has historically been exceptional rather than typical. As Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has observed in The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, capitalism has been successful mainly in the West. Consequently, there are tremendous income disparities around the world. In 2000, real income per person [...]
1Apr2005 | Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedBack Toward Serfdom in New Zealand
In the September 2000 issue of this magazine I reported that the Labour Party in New Zealand, at the behest of labor unions, had repealed the 1991 Employment Contracts Act (ECA), which had abolished compulsory unionism there. In its place was substituted the Employment Relations Act (ERA) to help unions reverse their drastic decline in [...]
1Apr2004 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedA Light Goes Out in New Zealand
I have often referred to New Zealand’s 1991 Employment Contracts Act (ECA) as a model of voluntary unionism that we in the United States would be wise to emulate. Notwithstanding its shortcomings—including its mandatory personal grievance provisions, its creation of the specialist Employment Court, and its failure to do anything about the minimum-wage law—the ECA [...]
1Sep2000 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedEconomic Freedom or Foreign Aid?
In a world of plenty want abounds. To blame are big corporations, international trade, and open markets, according to demonstrators who have been attacking the World Trade Organization. In fact, they couldn’t get it more wrong. Economic liberty and exchange offer the world’s poor the best hope of a better future.
1Jul2000 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedUnions and Antitrust: Governmental Hypocrisy
Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act states that “every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce . . . is hereby declared to be illegal.” Notwithstanding that the antitrust laws have been used to favor particular competitors rather than the competitive process, the Act [...]
1Feb2000 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Privatization Process
Professor Savas is the director of the Privatization Research Organization, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York. This is an interesting and excellent collection of essays related to privatization. Although a third of the chapters appeared elsewhere in different versions, the editors deserve credit for including those and commissioning the others. [...]
1Dec1996 | E. S. Savas | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom-for-Labor Day in New Zealand
May 15, 1991, is a day that shall live in glory in the history of the world-wide struggle to free working men and women from the shackles of compulsory unionism. On that date the New Zealand Parliament enacted the Employment Contracts Act (ECA), a piece of legislation that, notwithstanding its two faults, could be used [...]
1Oct1996 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | Continued-
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