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Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations. The granddaddy of them all. Smith’s style can wear on modern readers, an Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States. The side of American history you usually don’t get in the textboo

...ty ownership. These are the most commonly used types of definitions in the United States. Examples of such definitions include: ...ys some leeway in the application of these definitions. For example in the United States we have had a federal minimum wage for over 50 years which means tha

beyond the circles of the wealthiest nations and social groups. (Benkler, Wealth of ...taken as an ur-text for modern conservatism, Adam Smith’s 1776 Wealth of Nations (although as many have pointed out a close reading of that text makes it ha

...ats to Internet Freedom: Taxes, Regulations, and any attempt by the United Nations to manage the Internet.”

...versity of Chicago and made sure the book ended up in every library in the United States. ...ockefeller Foundation. In fact, for the first years of Mises's life in the United States, before his appointment as a visiting professor in the Graduate Scho

...e whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Courts have interpre ...ic law is commonly interpreted as prohibiting it). State usury laws in the United States and Islamic banks in some countries are

... was not to be one of them. “It was the first time I had set foot in the United States,” he recalls in the introduction, “and it felt good to have my w ...ez, a French-born economist at Berkeley, examined income inequality in the United States between 1913 and 1998. It detailed how the share of U.S. national in

The first chart is a simple one, and it concerns the United States alone. It tracks the share of over-all income taken by the top ten p ...of income generated by work, Piketty notes, the level of inequality in the United States is “probably higher than in any other society at any time in the p

...ies that built a welfare state, to housebreak but not supplant capitalism. Nations that celebrated Marx, meanwhile, were economic failures that repressed thei After that war, the victorious nations tried to restore the trinity of free trade, the gold standard, and unprotec

... protracted political action. The first bankruptcy laws in Britain and the United States limited eligibility for bankruptcy to individuals engaged in commerc ...; 2000). Contemporary movements for the relief of debts owed by developing nations manifest the same dynamic on an international scale. If bankruptcy should b

...o curtail overfishing and rebuild its fisheries in the past decade — the United States. Different regions in the United States now employ a variety of policies to regulate overfishing. Alaska, fo

Likewise, if something has been getting worse in Britain but not the United States, or vice versa, that will not suffice either. Progressivism is suppo ...t is worthwhile to check whether other nations show the same trends as the United States. If every country that was becoming more Progressive showed increase

...level of protectionism in the United States as compared with other Western nations in 1875 in the following data: (1) United States | 40–50%

... I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression.' And this was not jus ...y focused on demanding Friedmanite cut-backs and privatizations inside the United States. Frum, for example, first made his name in the U.S. with Dead Right,

...aged children and is crucial to keeping a level playing field for all. The United States has fallen well short of this goal. In most of Europe there is unive ... highest child poverty rate out of the thirty-five nations measured by the United Nation Children’s Fund (only Romania is worse). Twenty-three percent of A

...ed in having about as much or faster growth in per capita incomes than the United States and with far greater equality. ...ating for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Today, access to health care is among the most universally accepte

...nal appropriation. Section C considers whether the particular histories of nations place limits on government property rights. ...t the power of government and some of the powers of ownership would become united in the thousands of years that have elapsed since the first appropriation o

A statistic on business failure in the United States: only 50% of new businesses will survive after 5 years, only 38% wil ...e years before 1991, subsequent empirical studies of both the US and other nations result in much the same findings: e.g., in Canada, 68% of businesses with f

...before the Supreme Court opened the floodgates to big money in “Citizens United,” prior to SuperPACs, and before the Wall Street bailout. Yet American democracy seemed robust compared to other nations that in the first half of the twentieth century succumbed to communism or t