mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Chang, Ha-Joon [Chang, Ha-Joon]

So far, I have listed many successful examples of government picking winners and explained why the free-market theory that denies the very possibility of government picking winners is full of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-03 | Author:Joyce Appleby

9 WAR AND DEPRESSION IN 1914 WAR CAME to Europe through the measured minuet of mobilizing armies. It was a slow dance. When discretion suggested to some countries to start ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:John Mcmillan

A noisy demonstration took place in Kansas City in May 1999 over a curious kind of injustice. “Share the wealth,” the protesters’ placards demanded. What had aroused their anger was ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Luigi Zingales

THE WRONG FIXES One natural political response to this state of affairs is protectionism. Given the economic fundamentals, there has been surprisingly little pressure for that so far. One possible ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-10 | Author:Hazlitt, Henry [Hazlitt, Henry]

1The cotton program has been, however, an especially instructive one. As of August 1, 1956, the cotton carryover mounted to the record figure of 14,529,000 bales, more than a full ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1999-10-17 | Author:Michael Lewis [Lewis, Michael]

10 God Mode Allan Prior was a sailor’s sailor, if such a thing can be said to exist on a 157-foot yacht decorated with thirty million dollars worth of French ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Meltzer, Allan H.

Foreign and Military Commitments In the years just after World War II, the United States gradually accepted responsibility for maintaining world political stability and countering the perceived threat from the ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 1967-07-15 | Author:Ayn Rand & Nathaniel Branden & Alan Greenspan & Robert Hessen [Rand, Ayn & Branden, Nathaniel & Greenspan, Alan & Hessen, Robert]

18. THE OBLITERATION OF CAPITALISM by Ayn Rand In my article “ ‘Extremism,’ or The Art of Smearing,” I discussed the subject of “anti-concepts”—i.e., artificial, unnecessary, undefined and (rationally) unusable ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2008-03-24 | Author:Ludwig von Mises [Ludwig von Mises]

______________ Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) was dean of the Austrian School of economics. This paper was prepared for the meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society held in Beauvallon, France, September ...