University School of Foreign Service, interviewed Rothbard about Sweden and European integration with the rise of the ECU (euro). The interview took place in to eliminate the welfare state, but to spread it to all countries. In short: the EuropeanUnion (EU) is a nightmare for those who would like to see a free market economy in
8, no. 3 (March 1990) It is generally agreed, both inside and outside Eastern Europe, that the only cure for their intensifying and grinding poverty is to abandon and statism across-the-board. For one thing, as we have seen in the Soviet Union, gradual reform provides a convenient excuse to the vested interests, at once and overnight, on the ,glorious day of July 7, 1949. In addition, the East European countries are starved for capital to develop their economy, and capital will
the discovery was universally reviled as a vicious genocidal act by a “dead white European male.” Every week, it seems, the media come up with little-known substitute Chavez successfully cultivated a quasi-political, quasi-religious aura for his union movement: including hymns, marches, fasts, and flags. He popularized such
countries (in Britain generated because of the rigid wage structure caused by unions and the unemployment insurance system, as well as a return to the gold the international division of labor. And this is not all. Robbins also sets the European scene in the context of the disruptions of the largely free market brought about by World War I; the statization, unionization, and cartelization of the economy that the war brought about; the
is available for download .] The Enlightenment was a general movement in European thought in the 18th century that stressed the power of human reason to over and dominate the Church of Scotland, the established church which, since the union of Scotland and England in 1707, had been established by the British Crown even
from the late seventies of the last century, when the industrial countries of Europe started to abandon the policy of free trade and to engage in the race for end that the English imperialists sought to attain in the creation of a customs union embracing the dominions and the mother country was the same as that which the colonial acquisitions of Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, and other European countries were intended to serve, viz., the creation of protected export
cartelists. Quite the contrary; it is now important to extend deregulation to the European sphere and end the international cartel of IATA, which has crippled intra-European travel and kept airline fares outrageously high. What of the other unwelcome to consumer needs than private firms would be. President Reagan’s feat in de-unionizing the air controllers early in his administration has made people overlook
an overvalued pound and rigidly high wage rates kept up by strong, militant unions and widespread unemployment insurance, kept slumping during an era when If 1924 is set equal to 100, world exports had risen to 132 by 1929, while Western European exports had similarly risen to 134. United States exports had also risen to “preference” for unemployment was made not by the unemployed themselves but by the union leadership on their alleged behalf, a leadership which itself did not have to
however, we have seen, as a corollary of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe, a vivid and startlingly swift decomposition of the centralized State or context of time and place, meaning neighborhood and land area. The modern European nation-state, the typical “major power,” began not as a nation at all, but
Mises Store .] Upon the collapse of centralizing totalitarian Communism in Eastern Europe and even the Soviet Union, long suppressed ethnic and nationality questions and conflicts have come the notable exception of American Indians), peopled by a large number of mainly European religious, ethnic, and national immigrant groups, within the framework of a
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