It sounds like London Councillor Anna Hopkins is in favour of formulating government policies aimed at reducing the number of cars on London’s roads, but she offers no economic justification for this view.
In the September, 2017 issue (no. 23) of the Byron Villager magazine (unavailable online), Hopkins wrote (emphasis added):
John Dickinson (1732-1808) was one of the most important of America’s founders. He was a colonial legislator, member of the Stamp Act, Continental, and Confederation Congresses, chief executive of both Delaware (by a 25 to 1 vote; his being the only opposed) and Pennsylvania, president of the 1786 Annapolis convention that led to the Constitutional Convention, and among the most informed and seasoned statesmen to attend the Constitutional Convention.
Ludwig von Mises, in his masterpiece Human Action, presents and explains the entire body of economic theory as implied in, and deducible from, one’s conceptual understanding of the meaning of action (plus that of a few general, explicitly introduced assumptions about the empirical reality in which action is taking place).
The descent of US/North Korea “crisis” to the level of schoolyard taunts should be remembered as one of the most bizarre, dangerous, and disgraceful chapters in US foreign policy history.
#LondonIsOpen is what you are likely to see branded on bus shelters and underground stations if you were to visit London. The slogan represents a major campaign launched by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to show that London is united and open to business, and to the world, following the decision of the people of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. In fact, in his Mayoral Election campaign in 2016, Sadiq Khan claimed that he would champion and support business and innovation in London.
In the 1970’s we heard the earth was going to get so crowded we’d be falling off. Now the panickers have flipped to population decline. They were wrong in the 70’s, so are they wrong again? Is a declining population catastrophic?
Countries from Germany to Japan are investing in mass immigration or pro-birth policies on the assumption that they must import enough warm bodies to stave off economic collapse. I think this is mistaken. Falling population on a country level is certainly no catastrophe and, indeed, may be positive. I’ll outline some reasons here.
Desperate to fill hours and hours of air time on 24-hour news channels, media corporations have made sure the discussion of the correct posture of National Football League players has been front and center.
You probably already know this, but the Mises Institute has no billionaire backers — in fact, we operate with a fraction of other organizations’ budgets. We don’t accept government money or grants. We don’t cater to deep-pocketed leftwing or rightwing foundations. We don’t engage in “pay to play” research. And we don’t promote “public policy,” we promote liberty. But we can only do that if people like you support our mission.
“And I will pray to a big god, as I kneel in the big church”
—Peter Gabriel
Imagine for a moment that you are a British citizen with doubts about Brexit. You turn on the television and listen to the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, state the following:
