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The Times (London) Friday, March 26, 1999 Two cheers for Colonel Tony Benn Nato was set up to fight a war in Europe. The Red Army invades, Nato fights back; Turks fight for Norway, French fight for Greece. What an extraordinary irony it is that Nato should not, in the event, have had to fight any war in Europe, but then chose, after the Cold War,
[An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Steven Ng, is available for download .] When future generations of scholars look back on the economic and political disaster enveloping the United States today, three questions should be at the forefront of their minds. First, they should wonder whether the many generations of politicians that
You would think that smart intellectuals would realize that no such animal as capitalism exists in the USA or anywhere else. In America we have a welfare state, a highly regulated, even regimented economy, which, admittedly, is relatively more free than the economies of other countries around the globe but by no means as free with respect to
Several provinces in India have recently banned sale of Coca Cola and Pepsi. The reason: they are claimed to contain a higher level of pesticides than is acceptable in Europe. It is as if the cola companies have been adding pesticides to poison Indians. Here is the story. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a top non-governmental
According to a recent news item , the Indian government will start offering a “dowry” of INR50,000 (about US$1,100) to anyone who marries someone from a lower caste. This money is more than 1.5 years of Indian per-capita GDP. As per-capita GDP is an average, it is easy to imagine that this money is much more than what the majority of Indians will
“If you are an economist and did not see this coming, you should seriously reconsider the value of your education” “What Good Are Economists Anyway?” asks BusinessWeek’s April 27, 2009 cover story . The article makes the important point that, since most economists failed to predict the current crisis, the worst economic collapse in nearly 80
[ Originally published June 7, 2006. ] The “father of modern economics,” said economist Murray Rothbard, was a “gallicized Irish merchant, banker, and adventurer who wrote the first treatise on economics more than four decades before the publication of the Wealth of Nations .” (Rothbard 1995, p. 345) Richard Cantillon’s Essay on the Nature of
[ Unemployment in History: Economic Thought and Public Policy • By John A. Garraty. This review was first published in Inquiry , 1977.] A historian who doesn’t understand economics can only write about economic history or the history of economic thought like a behaviorist psychologist dealing with the human mind. He is limited to approaching his
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