I contributed a chapter called “The Unanswered Questions of the Just Wage” for a new book from London’s Institute of Economic Affairs called Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy. I haven’t yet read the rest of the book, but information about it is available here and the entire text is available for .pdf download here.
Nokia, Qualcomm in patent tussle describes the battles being waged between Qualcomm and Nokia over cell phone-related patents. IP proponents claim that the patent system “stimulates innovation”. IBut it’s pretty apparent that what is being stimulated is legal battles.
Anyone who has read RJ Rummel’s China’s Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 can only wish that the Chinese would get a merciful break after all that. (Except for the neocons who are eager to get a conflict going with China and for whom mercy, I gather, is not a virtue.)
“If you add up all the benefits, it’s really astonishing,” the New York senator and former first lady said, citing one study that says for every dollar invested in pre-kindergarten, there is at least a seven fold return. -- Hillary Clinton as reported by Yahoo!News
Swiss Communications Minister Moritz Leuenberger has suggested a ‘tax on information’ to help bridge the digital divide between wealthy countries with good communication infrastructure and poor countries where most of the population have no access to modern communications.
Leuenberger revealed his proposal to a United Nations meeting convened to follow up on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held jointly in Geneva and Tunis in 2003 and 2005.
Federal Circuit Snubs Pfizer On Norvasc Rehearing discusses a recent legal dispute that involves the FDA and patents and exemplifies what a mess and waste the FDA and patent system are.
Environmentalism is the diametric opposite of economic liberalism. In contrast to liberalism and its doctrine of the harmony of the rightly understood self-interests of all men, environmentalism alleges the most profound conflict of interests among people. It implies that there is a major economic benefit to be obtained through the death of billions of fellow human beings, that, indeed, the well-being and prosperity of the survivors depends on the extermination of those billions. FULL ARTICLE
Summer is a great time for kids to pursue a different kind of learning. Economics, for example. For the most part, they don’t teach this stuff in school, and when they do, it’s usually about the glories of government management.
Economics is not to be neglected in education! The student either will either receive guidance or fall victim to fallacy.
Just great. For years we’ve resisted signing on to the socialistic Law of the Sea Treaty. Well, Bush is now urging “the Senate to act favorably on U.S. accession to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea during this session of Congress.”
