All Posts Tagged With: "trade barriers"
Mad About Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization
Free trade is the consumer’s best friend and a great contributor to peace. Pressing those ideas home is Cato Institute trade expert Daniel Griswold’s challenge in this book. He is mad for trade, while too many others are mad against trade. As an example of the latter, consider radio host and writer Lou Dobbs, who [...]
25Aug2010 | William H. Peterson | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Fear of Free Trade
It’s hard to think of an issue that is more polarized than the one between free traders and protectionists. Those of us who favor free trade believe in the ethical principle that people should be free to buy from whomever they choose, and in the economic truth that wealth and efficiency increase as prices fall. [...]
1Dec2007 | Mark W. Hendrickson | 1 comment | ContinuedAfricans Whom Westerners Should Heed
At the G8 Summit in Scotland last July, hosted by Britains Tony Blair, European and North American politicians (all of them white) cried crocodile tears for the plight of black Africans. Echoing a gaggle of actors, rock stars, socialist ideologues, Third World dictators, and other learned economic-development
experts, they called for another transfer of wealth from developed nations to the undeveloped ones of Africawhich, by most measures, would seem to exclude no country on the continent.
Presumptuous Protectionism
If someone gets caught selling somebody elses property,
he goes to jail.What may be legally bought and
sold in the market is limited to legitimate private
property acquired by ones own effort or through voluntary
exchange with others. Since legal transactions are
settled accounts, what is traded belongs to neither the
government nor the community. It is private property,
and as such the owner can dispose of it at his sole discretion,
limited only by other peoples
rights. Correct?
Globalization and Free Trade
Freedom of trade is really a very simple concept. Each individual should be at liberty to buy from and sell to whomever he wishes on mutually agreed-upon terms. Whether the partners to this trade live next door to each other or are separated by thousands of miles should make absolutely no difference to the logic [...]
1Apr2004 | Richard M. Ebeling | 6 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 | ContinuedAn Alternative to Failed Foreign Aid
LAHORE, Pakistan-One of Lahore’s small Christian communities sits on army land and thus constitutes an illegal occupation in the government’s view. Most homes have one room. The latrines are makeshift, and families are lucky to survive on $20 a month. These are “very difficult times,” one resident told me. But these people have never seen [...]
1Aug2002 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | ContinuedImmigration: An Abolitionist’s Cause
One of the most frequent arguments used against opening borders is that it would add to the welfare burden of the state and that innocent taxpayers will be compelled to pay for slothful immigrants. Slothful immigrants? Students in my international trade and finance classes always get a good laugh at the notion of “slothful immigrants.” [...]
1Jan2002 | Ken Schoolland | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Sorry Record of Foreign Aid in Africa
For almost half a century the countries of Africa have been awash in aid. Hundreds of billions of dollars have been given to African governments. More billions were lent to these same governments. Countless tons of food have inundated the continent, and swarms of consultants, experts, and administrators have descended to solve Africa’s problems.
1Aug2001 | James Peron | 5 comments | ContinuedWhatever Happened to the Egyptians?
“Governments are generally reluctant to admit mistakes and to change mistaken policies until much harm has been done.” —P. T. Bauer and B. S. Yamey 1 In Whatever Happened to the Egyptians? (American University in Cairo Press, 2000), a popular book in Egypt, author Galan Amin raises a good question. Thousands of years ago Egypt [...]
1Aug2001 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Return to a Global Economy
If we want to understand the current advance of global capitalism, it is worth remembering that a liberal international economic order has actually arisen twice, first at the end of the nineteenth century and now at the end of the twentieth.[1] In many ways, the world economy has simply caught up to where it was 100 years ago, prompting prominent economists to question whether the level of international integration is as high now as it was before the interruptions of two world wars and the Great Depression.
1Nov2000 | Ian Vásquez | 0 comments | ContinuedNo Dog in that Fight
As satisfying as it was to see the World Trade Organization meeting reduced to dithering, no meticulous free trader could have taken sides in the confrontation last fall involving the WTO bureaucrats, the street mob, and the jackbooted Seattle police. There were no “Free Traders Against the WTO” signs in sight. The free trade movement, [...]
1Feb2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy by Patrick Buchanan
Little Brown & Company • 1998 • 320 pages • $22.95 Patrick Buchanan has given America one of the most eloquent theological tracts of recent decades. Unfortunately, when Buchanan, a two-time presidential candidate, takes his theological views into economic areas, the result is a recipe for poverty, conflict, and subjugation. The subtitle of Buchanan’s book [...]
1Jan1999 | James Bovard | 0 comments | ContinuedDr. Andrew Ure: Pioneer Free Trader
John Chodes is the communications director for the Libertarian Party of New York City. In 1846 England became the first major industrial country to end its centuries-old protectionist policies against imports from other nations. This was a revolutionary move. Free trade was much more than an economic policy. It reflected the philosophy of justice and [...]
1Oct1998 | John Chodes | 0 comments | Continued-
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