Free Trade Is a Boon to the Environment

Image via Wikipediaby Sallie James Sallie James is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies. Added to cato.org on October 8, 2009 This article appeared on RealClearMarkets.com on October 8, 2009.If summitry was a sure predictor of activity, then climate change would be heading towards a golden era. The UN climate summit on

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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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Barack Obama talking about education and science

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Why Peace Matters for Development

I just discovered this great site, through Epiphenom, it's called Visions of Humanity.

Here's some interesting facts I found on it.

The Global Peace Index, established by Steve Killelea, provides a refreshing new perspective. Its logic is simple, and appealing : instead of trying to understand and prevent conflict, why not also search for the characteristics which are associated with peace, and

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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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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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George Soros Calls for a New World Architecture

In a shocking piece published Thursday on Project Syndicate.org, globalist financier George Soros calls for a “New World Architecture”. In his essay, he states how international capitalism, led by the United States has “broken down” and how “A new multilateral system based on sounder principals must be invented” through the use of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Soros goes on to recommend

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