All Posts Tagged With: "rents"
Roots of Egypt’s Revolt
Egypt has been a pressure cooker for decades. Like others in the region, the Mubarak regime was sitting atop a simmering political crisis, simultaneously attempting to contain rising Islamist violence and snuff out pockets of political resistance. The country has been under a continuous state of emergency since the assassination of Mubarak’s predecessor, Anwar Sadat, [...]
21Apr2011 | Nouh El Harmouzi | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Subsidy of History
A considerable number of libertarian commentators have remarked on the sheer scale of subsidies and protections to big business, on their structural importance to the existing form of corporate capitalism, and on the close intermeshing of corporate and state interests in the present state capitalist economy. We pay less attention, however, to the role of [...]
1Jun2008 | Kevin A. Carson | 16 comments | ContinuedPolitics By Principle, Not Interest: Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy by James M. Buchanan and Roger D. Congleton
Cambridge University Press • 1998 • 191 pages • $49.95 William Peterson, a Heritage Foundation adjunct scholar, is Distinguished Lundy Professor Emeritus of Business Philosophy at Campbell University in North Carolina. Said Plato: “Morality determines politics.” Which raises a question 2,500 years later for Nobel laureate James Buchanan and fellow economist Roger Congleton: Does politics [...]
1Jan1999 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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