Made on Earth: How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete

Image via WikipediaThis is an interesting article I've found on the CATO website. I thought that more incentives about economic freedom would be welcomed in our world. Sharing knowledge about these facts and analysis is done in hopes of changing people's minds for the better.Daniel Ikenson is associate director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and coauthor of

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Making Globalization Work

This is a lecture about Globalization's ups and downs held at the World Affairs Council by Joseph E. Stiglitz (no need to tell you who he is, right?)

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World economy: A bigger club

Image by tonyhall via FlickrFROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNITThe G-20 summit in Pittsburgh on September 24th-25th produced three notable, if expected, developments. First, the G-20 rather immodestly announced itself as the new "premier" international economic grouping—underlining the growing global clout of emerging markets such as China and the declining relevance of the G-8. Second, it

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The Core of What Economics Teaches

This is a video from Mises Institute's YouTube Channel, presented by Robert P. Murphy at the "Economics for High School Students" seminar. Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama; 20 November 2009. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis.

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Modelling the Future: Climate Change and Food

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Superfreakonomics

With Freakonomics, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner revealed the good, bad, ugly and super freaky of the world around us.The freakquel is here. Back with more than pop-culture trivia, Inforum's next 21st Century Visionary Award recipients are ready to revolutionize our understanding of causality in an incredibly interconnected world.Courtesy of FORA.tv

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Economists Can Be Hilarious

Mises Daily: Thursday, November 19, 2009 by Robert P. MurphyEconomists have a reputation for being dry and boring. That's why Ben Stein's scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off works so well — and why this guy is such a novelty. Given our dismal reputation, I am happy to report that some economists' recent defenses of the efficient-markets hypothesis are laugh-out-loud

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Is There a Method in Cellphone Madness?

By SAUL HANSELL, The New York TimesHere's a consolation prize to the millions who recoil in bafflement from cellphone companies’ labyrinthine price plans, with their ever more intricate arrays of minutes, messages and megabytes: Economists don’t understand them, either.“The whole pricing thing is weird,” said Barry Nalebuff, an economics professor at the Yale School of Management. “You pay $60 to

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Did You Know?

This is a great video, which sheds some light on a few things.Courtesy of Xplane visual thinking.

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Second Thoughts? Or third ones?

By re-posting excerpts from articles from various sites, am I doing an illegal thing? I mean, I'm not getting any money out of this adventure, I'm just disseminating information the best way I can.

If anyone knows tell me.

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The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age

This might seem something uninteresting at first. I mean, we all think, right? But some of us do it more often and with more intensity than others. Those are called policy makers. They are the thinkers we all rely on to solve issues on a daily basis.Bearing that in mind, here's another interesting book, about how Learning Institutions, are coping with the challenges of the new age of social

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The Return of Depression Economics

Here's Paul Krugman's take on the economic/financial crises and what's going to happen with our world economies in the future.

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World economy: The recovery continues

This is an article from the Economist Intelligence Unit or EIU

Economic conditions continue to improve. With the exception of the UK, most countries in the developed world appear to have moved out of recession, while emerging markets outside eastern Europe are recovering relatively well. The Economist Intelligence Unit raised several of its key forecasts last month to reflect the improving

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Hans Rosling @ TED Talks "Let My Dataset Blow Your Mindset"

This is Hans Rosling's June talk at TED.

About the talk:
Talking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world, mixed with classic data shows.






You can download (for free!) the talk from the TED website, here

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Are Libertarians "Anarchists"?

by Murray N. Rothbard


The libertarian who is happily engaged expounding his political philosophy in the full glory of his convictions is almost sure to be brought short by one unfailing gambit of the statist. As the libertarian is denouncing public education or the Post Office, or refers to taxation as legalized robbery, the statist invariably challenges. "Well, then are you an anarchist?" The

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Mozart Was a Red

[This play was written in the early 1960s. A special performance was given at the 60th birthday celebration for Murray Rothbard held March 3, 1986, in New York City. The video of this performance can be seen here.]

Introduction by Jeffrey Tucker

Anyone who has read Murray Rothbard's review of Atlas Shrugged would know that he was a huge fan of Ayn Rand's procapitalist views. In the same way,

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The Ghost in the Recovery Machine

By Robert Shiller


NEW HAVEN – The International Monetary Fund’s October World Economic Outlook proclaimed that, “Strong public policies have fostered a rebound of industrial production, world trade, and retail sales.” The IMF, along with many national leaders, seem ready to give full credit to these policies for engineering what might be the end of the global economic recession.

National

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Let's do this...

This is an interesting book, I've just found. I liked the contents and decided to share it with you.

A brief description.

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) is the American individualist anarchist and legal theorist, known mainly for setting up a commercial post office in competition with the government and thereby being shut down. But he was also the author of some of the most radical political and

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Mises Debunks the Religious Case for the State

by Lawrence M. Vance


In 1920, Ludwig von Mises wrote a comprehensive critique of the economics of socialism that launched the "calculation debate." The significance of his seminal essay, "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth," as Mises Institute Senior Fellow Joseph Salerno writes in a postscript, is that it "extends far beyond its devastating demonstration of the impossibility of

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Electric Cars and Sustainable Development

by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs tells us how global warming had a major influence in the rebirth of the electric car. An important point of view from one of today most prominent authors.

From Imagini Blogger
NEW YORK – The key to climate change control lies in improved technology. We need to find new ways to produce and use energy, meet our food needs, transport ourselves, and heat and cool

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