By Sterling T. Terrell Maybe better access to quality food leads to obesity and related health problems for much of the people that lack access to quality food. My question is: On average, would a more open nation lead to better food access, quality, etc.? To get at this, I looked at
and applications were frequently proprietary or “closed.” The web encouraged open standards, transparency, and free software; e.g., information would be encoded popularizing the closed ecosystem model associated with iOS. Today, people largely access information via apps, not browsers, apps that are often proprietary, specific
well, not so subtle. Even those sympathetic to Clinton’s views were surprised how openly the media expressed its preference for one side. As a Times editor noted, with claims about Saddam Hussein, about Iraqis welcoming US soldiers with open arms, about the mobile weapons trailers, and so on. Eventually there were mea give them resources and influence. Political journalists, for example, depend on access — invitations to news conferences, contact with anonymous sources, copies of
or paying large speaking or consulting fees to Bill Clinton, get preferred access to Ms. Clinton as Secretary of State? Is there a revolving door between the including $1.8 million for just 8 speeches to large banks. (CNN provides eye-opening details about her speaking requirements — the $225,000 fee is just the tip of
need “knowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place,” they only need access to prices. “The mere fact that there is one price for any commodity . . . to his skippers’ finances, so a knowledge of international conflict is essential. Opening up a newspaper — he’ll see a photograph of a head of state and if he’s bright
others, the decision to organize transactions within the firm as opposed to on the open market—the “make or buy decision”—depends on the relative costs of internal several sources. First, the central headquarters of the firm (HQ) typically has access to information unavailable to external parties, which it extracts through its
economic system as a whole,” as Walras and Pareto conceived of it, is certainly open to Mises’s [anti-equilibrium] strictures. (Lachmann 1977, p. 189) In other
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