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ISSN 1464-9888 print/ISSN 1469-9516 online/05/010093-22 # 2005 United Nations Development Programme DOI: 10.1080/146498805200034266 ...le, global trade agreements should not benefit primarily the most powerful nations, or people should not be discriminated on the labour market based on irrele

...ederation embodied an entirely different concept of indirect taxation. The United States was to levy a tax, not on individual property holders, but on each s ...m in opposing collection by such super-statist organizations as the United Nations, which is substantially a federation of tyrannies. However, royal libertari

...mplete. If it were true, Liberia, who borrowed more than its flag from the United States, ought to be much more successful than it is.4) Instead, these insti ...icely. It’s similar to a functioning police force and judiciary in WEIRD nations. In fact, the models suggest that the more power you give to the leader, th

the trading of nitrogen oxides (NOX) in the eastern United States; the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in the northeastern United States;

“”The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserve ... and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

For example, after gaining independence from colonial domination, many new nations have done away with communal or common property rights because these rights ...ne of the major political problems affecting environmentalist goals in the United States today: The rise of a "private property rights" movement in reaction

...le Programme, Rome, Italy, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ...h, J. L (2002). The Economic Evolution of Petroleum Property Rights in the United States. Journal of Legal Studies 31: S589–S608.

...ration of income at the top, the mass markets for consumption goods in the United States have been undermined to the point that the economic system can no lo Acemoglu, Daron and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2012) (Amazon)

...xtensively in the context of human development, for example, by the United Nations Development Programme, as a broader, deeper alternative to narrowly economi ...oped by Amartya Sen and the economist Mahbub ul Haq in 1990 for the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Reports is the most influential c

...ptember 1972 by the South Pacific Forum, which includes all Pacific Island nations as either members or observers. In 2005, Fiji had declared that they did no ...alth to a minority even smaller than the 1% that currently lauds it in the United States."[35] Specifically:

...ly invaded by the state. Compulsory school attendance laws, endemic in the United States since the turn of this century, force children either into public sc Jump up ↑ "Nations by Consent: Decomposing the State" Journal of Libertarian Studies Fall 1994

...ion. But the alternative phrasing would lead to more organ donors--and the United States alone currently has about 100,000 people on waiting lists for organ ...military recruits to encouraging people to get vaccinated against flu. The United Kingdom's Behavioural Insights Team, one of the first and largest such unit

...eedoms offered to their people. In the UK and many other developed Western nations of today, the extent to which the State is perceived to have control is an ...ry approaches to salt reduction that operate in the United Kingdom and the United States, and proposes a new strategy for improving their performance. Drawin

..., markets for money, goods, capital and labor had become intertwined among nations as never before. As John Maynard Keynes would later rue, a well-to-do inhab ... globalization as its late-19th-century version. While the backlash in the United States and Europe differs in specific details, the broad outlines are simil

...ion of Human Rights in 1948 and the Millennium Development Goals where the nations of the world agreed on a number of milestones that humanity should strive f ...ly much less than that. But starting in the 1930s with the New Deal in the United States and accelerating in Europe after World War II with the welfare state

...been no diplomatic recognition of Liberland by any country from the United Nations..." | show=}}

...egulation does relatively little to reduce or increase overall jobs in the United States.” ...ain, France, Switzerland, Australia, and New Zealand, to get a jump on the United States. In the beginning, it was American companies, like California-based

...protected in perpetuity from market pressures, has a bad reputation in the United States, in part because of misleading stereotypes about public housing. But ...sing owned or financed by the government. But unlike public housing in the United States, Vienna’s social housing serves the middle class as well as the po

...elationships that forced workers to organize unions in self-defense in the United States and elsewhere. They are also quite profitable and have thrived for o We agree with libertarians that the United States’ corrupt collusion of government and wealth, of the military and t

...eturning to the promise of full employment: A Federal Job Guarantee in the United States’, Research Brief, vol. 2, June, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Socia Zucman, G., 2015, The hidden wealth of nations: The scourge of tax havens, University of Chicago Press