All Posts Tagged With: "technological advances"

Medical Technology and the State

So-called public-policy experts often take the many advances in modern technology for granted. They assume that government regulations and controls merely redistribute the fruits of progress without affecting the nature and extent of technological development itself. But that is wrong. Whenever the government involves itself in the financing and distribution of goods and services, the [...]

1May2002 | Gary M. Pecquet | 1 comment | Continued

Sustainable Development: Common Sense or Nonsense on Stilts?

Jerry Taylor is director of natural resource studies at the Cato Institute and senior editor of Regulation magazine. The mantra of “sustainable development” is constantly on the lips of the international agencies and nongovernmental organizations helping lesser-developed countries. The concept seems innocuous enough; after all, who would favor “unsustainable development”? But the fundamental premise of [...]

1Sep1998 | Jerry Taylor | 3 comments | Continued

Technology and the Work Force: Work Will Not End

Mr. Jonas is the Herman Kahn Fellow at the Hudson Institute, in Indianapolis, Indiana. In his recent provocative book The End of Work, Jeremy Rifkin joins a growing chorus of social pessimists who argue that advanced technology leads to a concentration of wealth in the hands of “the elites” followed by wholesale unemployment for the [...]

1Nov1997 | Donald K. Jonas | 0 comments | Continued

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