All Posts Tagged With: "private property rights"
Adam Smith in China
James Dorn is a China specialist at the Cato Institute and professor of economics at Towson University in Maryland. A shorter version of this article first appeared in the Times of India, January 24, 2007.
China’s transition from plan to market since 1978 has not only increased prosperity but also has led to a new way [...]
Property and Prosperity: The Vital Link
Contributing editor Tibor Machan is a professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University.
Professor Richard Pipes has written extensively about the connection between property rights and prosperity in the history of Russia. Others have noted the connection in various places around the globe, including Peter Bauer and Amartya Sen. Without [...]
Who May Harm Whom?
Smoking has been one of the hot controversies of our time. Many people find tobacco smoke annoying, smelly, and just plain dirty and unpleasant. Some smokers themselves agree. ut today’s smoking restrictions, not to mention the attack on smokers and extortion of tobacco companies, could not have been engineered simply on the grounds that tobacco smoke is unpleasant.
1Apr2000 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | ContinuedTwo Indispensable Lessons
Donald Boudreaux is president of FEE.
The 1900s are now history. I say “1900s” rather than “twentieth century” to avoid irritating those sticklers for precision who note that the final day of the twentieth century is December 31, 2000, and not December 31, 1999.
I agree, too, with sticklers of another sort who point out that, because [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
