All Posts Tagged With: "third world"
Why Globalization Works
Look at the foes of economic globalization and you’ll find a curious coalition. Some are left-wingers who oppose globalization because they oppose capitalism. But others are right-wing protectionists who don’t like foreign competition. The strength of the anti-globalist coalition has waxed and waned over time, but there is still a large number of people who [...]
13Jul2010 | Martin Morse Wooster | 0 comments | ContinuedConsumption Must Be Curtailed to Sustain the Human Race?
Jared Diamond, in a January 2 op-ed in the New York Times, argues for a political solution to what he sees as a looming “consumption crisis” facing humanity. He notes that the current consumption of many resources, such as oil and metals, is roughly 32 times higher in the developed than in the developing world [...]
1Apr2008 | Gene Callahan | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Facts about World Hunger
Jim Peron is editor of Free Exchange, a monthly newsletter, and the owner of Aristotle’s Books in Auckland, New Zealand. The headline in the New York Times screamed: “World Hunger Increasing, New U.N. Report Finds.” Coming as it did just two days before Thanksgiving, the irony couldn’t be lost on the average reader. The opening [...]
1Sep2004 | James Peron | 2 comments | ContinuedEnding Farm Subsidies Wouldn’t Help the Third World?
Talks by the 146 members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) collapsed last fall over trade-liberalization disputes between rich and poor countries. The biggest bone of contention was the extent to which the “first world”—mainly Europe, the United States, and Japan—were willing to slash their huge farm subsidies. More than 20 developing countries, including Brazil, [...]
1Apr2004 | E.C. Pasour Jr. | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
As this is being written, the television talking heads are imploring us “not to walk away” from Afghanistan and to “invest” billions there instead. Before buying into that idea, everyone should read this book by a former World Bank economist whose forthrightness has evidently cost him his job. Early on, Easterly makes the following observation [...]
16Mar2003 | John T. Wenders | 0 comments | ContinuedSeeing the World Plain
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Washington, D.C., is filled with professions of good intentions by politicians and bureaucrats as they steadily strip away Americans’ liberty and money. The political class uses even the most serious social problem to [...]
1Feb2003 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedHow’s the Third World Doing?
The Third World is in trouble. Standards of living are plummeting, while the West is getting richer. Nearly everyone seems to believe it. The left wants to believe it as a justification for global socialism. Racists want to believe it because it “proves” the superiority of the white race. The media think it’s a good [...]
1Sep2002 | James Peron | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat Am I Missing?
Ralph Hood is a writer in Huntsville, Alabama. My “liberal” friends bemoan the exploitation of third-world peoples by first-world capitalists. We must, they say, stop this horrible mistreatment of the downtrodden by greedy capitalist pigs. I did some research myself and found exactly the situation they deplore. Furthermore, the sob-sister “liberals” have not yet discovered [...]
1Apr2001 | Ralph Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedP. T. Bauer’s Market-Liberal Vision
Today it is not unusual to hear it suggested that the undeveloped world’s best hope lies in private property, the market economy, and the rule of law. But a short time ago, that suggestion would have scandalized many audiences. Peter Bauer is a major reason for that shift. Lord Bauer, the son of a Budapest [...]
1Oct2000 | James A. Dorn | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Role of Government: Promoting Development or Getting Out of the Way
Mr. Bandow, a monthly columnist for The Freeman, is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World. Of all the tasks assumed by government, none is more inappropriate than that of promoting economic development. It is [...]
1Mar1997 | Doug Bandow | 2 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Faith & Credit: The World Bank’s Secular Empire by Susan George and Fabrizio Sabelli
Westview Press • 1994 • 282 pages • $63.50 cloth; $16.95 paperback Mr. Ewert is the editor of U-Turn, a quarterly publication addressing theological, political, economic, and social issues from a biblical perspective. Someone once put forth the aphorism: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Presumably if you’re against something and I’m against [...]
1Feb1997 | Ken S. Ewert | 0 comments | Continued-
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