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... treat the non-elderly poor and working class far more generously than the United States does. ... than the gross figure in many cases. When these adjustments are made, the United States rises from close to the bottom to near the top of countries in terms

...ever bother to look outside the United States at depression history. Those nations that recovered from the Great Depression or its aftermath rapidly and succe

...anism. Libertarianism is best understood as a family of political theories united by rough agreement on a set of normative beliefs, empirical generalizations 79 Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Indianpolis: Liberty Fund, 1982); Friedrich A. Hayek, “The Use of Knowle

...be used to justify slavery and serfdom and the expropriation of indigenous nations. This reading aligns with Locke’s own role in Britain’s slave trading a ...s theory would indeed describe the conditions actually prevailing in the United States. The state could implement a policy by which any citizen could attai

... a state of impermissible 'anarchy', why may not the South secede from the United States? New York State from the Union? New York City from the state? Why ma ...The Basques in Spain have agitated to secede from that country. And in the United States, one of the bloodiest wars ever fought was to prevent the southern s

...terature has documented several indicators of declining competition in the United States, and economists have begun to explore the links between these trends ...ing in product markets, such agreements among employers are illegal in the United States and subject to antitrust laws (Hesse 2016).

...re than a further destruction of the democratic freedoms that the advanced nations have enjoyed and cripple the respective states’ abilities to oversee inde In Part 2, I highlighted how trading nations built up their industrial strength (I used Korea as an example). Japan is a

It seems to me that the United States (and other nations) can reap many benefits from [a national youth service program], in additio

... charged with the responsibility to ensure that these highly disadvantaged nations can access essential real resources such as food and not be priced out of i In the absence of such international commitments, nations should consider imposing capital controls where they can be beneficial bulw

...uatemala, india, kenya, Mexico, nepal, tanzania, thailand, Uganda, and the United states, with new centers being established in ethiopia and china (see Gibso

In the second half of the nineteenth century, cities and towns across the United States built and expanded municipal waterworks. The number of waterworks gr ...tively correlated using data on individuals, cities, counties, states, and nations. Reyes (2007) exploits state-specific reductions in lead exposure due to th

...happened in the real world; these "sub-societies" are what we usually call nations or countries. ...we could certainly imagine the constituent communities going to war - each united in beliefs strongly held yet incompatible with those of other communities.

...itical union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals socially united . . . the government of a community of States, and not the government of a ...” were breaking their former political bonds and declaring that “these united colonies are free and independent states.” It then goes on to describe wh

... whole host of studies into privatisation in both developing and developed nations, which show that the idea of greater efficiency in the private sector is a United Utilities £406

...risis of faith in Swedish education known as ‘PISA shock.’ Of all OECD nations, only Sweden had seen scores on the triennial Program for International Stu ...land also achieved about the same result differential when compared to the United States. Here is a chart I reproduced from the book (Page 287):

...eeded in getting DDT banned in the U.S.—a ban that later spread to other nations. ...gal—and indeed, used—in many other countries: 10 out of the 17 African nations that currently conduct indoor spraying use DDT (New York Times, 9/16/06).

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... countries by their happiness levels, will be released today at the United Nations at an event celebrating International Day of Happiness. The report, the fif ..., we launch the World Happiness Report 2017, once again back at the United Nations, again published by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and now

...es reduce freedom.4 By how much? Figure 1 shows effective tax rates in the United States for households at various points along the pretax income distributio Figure 1. Effective tax rates in the United States

[[Category:United States]] ...ration of Independence, Adam Smith published his magnum opus The Wealth of Nations. While Smith famously described the “invisible hand” of the free market