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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

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

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...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

...lammable materials catching on fire from an e-cigarette explosion.[92] The United States Fire Administration said that 25 fires and explosions were caused by ...d baggage.[93][96] The International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency, also recommends prohibiting e-cigarettes in checked luggage.[93] A

...rhaps the most widely~,quoted passage in all of economics in The Wealth of Nations published in 1776: ...o those who own, use, or enjoy forests and lakes in Eastern Canada and the United States will not be taken into account by those who make the decisions about

The United States Congress lacks the ability within the Constitution to impose upon Am ...re indivisible. Beginning with the 1968 Proclamation of Teheran the United Nations has promoted the idea that “Since human rights and fundamental freedoms a

... he blames for providing intellectual support for a rightward shift of the United States over the last few decades. “Economism presents a clean, uncluttere ...alth. He used the invisible-hand metaphor rather narrowly in The Wealth of Nations to describe a special situation where a merchant was choosing whether to in

...m" any call to hold the United States to the same moral standards as other nations, or progressives calling those who won't help them stamp out disapproved id

Hans Blick (the United Nations weapons inspector) when he said that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruct ...sed to freedom. They are opposed to the occupation of their country by the United States Army. In fact, those insurgents want to be even freer than they are

... Western Europe’s mixed economies — and, for a little while there, the United States had two out of three. Rothman feels no need to explain why any attem ...ne of those nations holds as many of its young people “captive” as the United States does — Rothman has nothing whatsoever to offer.

...ost powerful figure in the Mormon church at that time, J Reuben Clark, and United Fruit president Herb Cornuelle. ...an during a power outage! In the blackouts of 1965 and 1977 in the eastern United States and Canada, traffic began to move only after the police and a few ci

...ians, is universally acknowledged in civilized societies, as it was in the United States until, apparently, January 2001. No longer. The policy of the Bush a ...the depletion of the Atlantic Grand Banks fisheries east of Canada and the United States. It also explains the pollution of common waterways and airsheds, th

...herished by libertarians, which has its origin in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. ...eign trade. If there is a “trade imbalance,” say between Japan and the United States, as dollars go to Japan and consumer goods are imported to the U.S.,

..., custom, shared history, institutions, common purpose and, in the case of nations, governments and constitutions. And thus they, like works of genius, are mo ...an during a power outage! In the blackouts of 1965 and 1977 in the eastern United States and Canada, traffic began to move only after the police and a few ci

...s a pound, DDT is affordable and cost-effective health care for developing nations. ...nited Kingdom Medical Research Council, The United Nations Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), The Wellcome Trust, an

But the United States, while scarcely as far gone as Russia, has had many occupations virt ...to members of the aforesaid countries, e.g., to their equivalents in those nations.

...TIC 707 (1997). Taft boasted that his administration was suing to break up United States Steel Corporation, which was then the largest company in the country ...ices, but simply to buy the pigmy. During Wilson’s time for example, the United States Steel Corporation combined with or ac- quired no less than 228 separ

...hungry aristocrats, and high-ranking clergy embroiled themselves and their nations in. He also writes that commerce was one of the great pacifiers of the worl ...h is left so that others have not only enough, but just as good. (When the United States government drove the Native Americans of their ancestral land, they

...ational corporations, including some of the most prestigious brands in the United States, had been making illegal contributions to political parties not only ...oney: “Although each of the contributions came from company funds in the United States, the transfers were recorded as an advance to Bahamas Exploration Co

...New Alien World Order (at the bequest of the CIA) in order that the United Nations can take your guns away because they’ve uncovered a secret that will dest ...to war in Iraq. To be honest, America isn’t exactly the most peaceful of nations and has been at war for most of its history so this isn’t too hard of a s

...l Code has explic- itly incorporated custom into the commercial law of the United States.8 ... equal rank. Con- versely, if the Russians expel an American emissary, the United States will react by shipping back one of Russia’s envoys.

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He also enlisted the aid of the United States, sending President Chester A. Arthur carefully edited copies of the ...ublic's support. After Henry's actions in convincing President Arthur, the United States was the first country to recognize Congo as a legitimate sovereign s

...only recently ending. Since the virtual disappearance of leaded gas in the United States (it’s still sold for use in propeller airplanes), the mean blood-l ...s in their biggest Western markets, owing to lead phaseouts imposed in the United States and, more recently, Europe, the current sellers of lead additives ha

...0th century, largely through its role as an additive to gasoline. When the United States began phasing out leaded gas in the 1970s, the Gottwalds pivoted to ...e world’s biggest companies combined to introduce leaded gasoline in the United States, the fastest-growing market for automobiles. General Motors came up

...f economist for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce, before emigrating to the United States in 1940, where the American propertarians have been strongly influen ...istics [OECD Publishing, Paris, 2003], 50) Indeed, unlike other industrial nations, Austria saw no real reduction in unemployment during the 1930s.

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... place great weight on historical examples most often drawn from the early United States. So if they misstate history or draw obviously wrong conclusions, th ...ians of course know that the Constitution was not the first charter of the United States. But many of them rarely talk about the first one: the Articles of C

...ead of all books on economics in the period.[15] As Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations had during an earlier period, Mill's Principles dominated economics teachin ...er "[i]t is apparent ... that Proudhonian Anarchism was to be found in the United States at least as early as 1848 and that it was not conscious of its affin

Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 there has been gr ...e collapse of exchange-entitlements and trade-independent security in many nations in recent decades and have demonstrated that many people now fail to reach

...ck, Morris, & Bryce, 2003; Food-and-Agriculture-Organization-of-the-United-Nations, 2008). According to Woodburn (1968, p. 51), “For a Hadza to die of hunge ...ative diseases which produce the greater part of all mortality in affluent nations.” Obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer and strok

...rk for is via labor unions. In the United States and other rich democratic nations, unions arose with the industrial revolution in the mid-1800s. As figure 2 Union membership has tended to be lower in the United States than in most other affluent democracies, as we see in figure 3.

...me, however, contemporary liberalism has been under political siege in the United States, and liberal ideas have lost the high ground they once commanded in ...0-38), and “multilateralism” of the sort associated with the League of Nations and the U.N., understood less in terms of the actual working of these insti

...within the Exclusive Economic Zone of Thailand established by the [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]]. That gave the Thai government the right

[[Category:United Nations]] {{DES | des = The convention that, among other things, regulates claims on nations on the sea, such as Territorial Limits and Exclusive Economic Zones. For a

[[Category:United Nations]] ...lution 217 A) as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universall

...lacy has recently become common in media pharmaceutical advertising in the United States, where "Alphabet Soup" is used to create false identification with a ... asserts this fallacy risks ending up in a psychiatric ward, but groups or nations who do it are far too often taken seriously. Practiced by those who will no

...and shell companies centered, interestingly, in the United Kingdom and the United States. ...f the University of Chicago have shown in their broader analysis of “why nations fail,” the outcome will depend on the kind of institution-building Xi und

...odern democracy. Democracy is undergoing a crisis of representation in the United States, where the interests of the poor are systematically ig- nored by the (1977) find evidence of increased cultural and social convergence across nations as a result of exposure to common market and political forces.

...st cruelly oppressed by this ill-contrived law of settlements." [Wealth of Nations 61]. ... States, in its global operations to keep the Third World safe for ITT and United Fruit Company, by the same standard of "legitimate defensive requirements"

...rness of primary and secondary school admissions throughout Europe and the United States. Benjamin Edelman (2017) analyses a number of strategies that online ...specialization. In 2017, there were over 31,000 residency positions in the United States alone.

necessary and sufficient conditions. Rather, it is a family of theories, united by rough agreement on a set of empirical, methodological, and normative pro ...tional boundaries, racial and sexual divisions, etc. All humankind is one, united in its possession of a natural right

In the United States today, people suffer and die needlessly in large numbers. This is th ... from having the 21st century equivalent of an Edwardian class system, the United States is characterized by a great deal of variation in income. More than h

...punishments, not promotions; inequality reigns and poverty spreads. In the United States, the richest 1 percent of Americans own 40 percent of the country’ ... They virtually disappear in the United States, ranked dead last out of 71 nations with a score of 0.5.

Practice: The United States Practice: Canada and the EU ...rn Europe, Africa, and the New World into two hegemonies. By this time the United States had an effective anticartel law, the Sherman Act of 1890, that made

...Guadalupe Hidalgo, the Mexican-American War ended, and the landmass of the United States grew by 25 percent. Importantly, that 25 percent included the territ ...co and California from Mexico in 1842, but Mexico refused. Undeterred, the United States invaded Mexico on the flimsiest of pretenses and, on February 2, 184

...small countries which have real residents and international recognition as nations, such as Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vanuatu, Singapore, th ...nch Republic", a tongue-in-cheek "secession" of Key West, Florida from the United States in 1982 declared by the Key West city council to drum up tourism and

[[Category:United States]] ...background, the main current of what is called “libertarianism” in the United States, and “liberalism” elsewhere, treats the Gilded Age as a satisfac

...they say, "of leaving to the merchants the care of importing food from the United States and the Crimea? Why do not the State, the departments, and the towns ... to political economy, this phenomenon leads to false reasoning. It causes nations to consider their moral and their material interests as contradictory to ea

...ious platforms and bugbears were inevitably idiosyncratic, certain beliefs united them: that the radical freedom of markets and the marketplace of ideas was ...impoverishment and supercharged vulnerability on both fronts at once. In a United States wracked by virus, mounting climate change, and ruthless corporate pi

...d essentially been eradicated in the United States. But it still had other nations in its grip, especially in Africa, making a comeback after it seemed on the ...bitions. For that matter, the pesticide was not completely banished in the United States or elsewhere; the E.P.A. declared it acceptable if public health was

...s of Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government and Smith's The Wealth of Nations will find much subtler views than the positions I've presented here. But it ...ds who came to the New World in search of new lives with fresh starts, the United States quickly developed a civil religion predicated on the presumption tha

...countries. A glance at any multivariate well-being index (e.g., the United Nations’ Human Development Index, or newer efforts like the Social Progress Index ...y intrude with liberty or property. Virtually all governments do this. The United States allows great freedom of speech but permits the incarceration of many

...llowed them ourselves. When the World Trade Organization ruled against the United States, as it did for example in the case of George W. Bush’s steel tarif ...a as an ally when the president suggests that he might not defend European nations because, in his judgment, they don’t spend enough on NATO?

...nored the factual evidence right under his own nose, not in the Aboriginal nations of America but in his own country, in most villages in England, of peasants Virtually the same argument was used by Ayn Rand to deny that Native American nations had any rights to the land that European settlers were bound to respect.

...fare programs in other countries, the Great Society slashed poverty in the United States. The post-war period, when we had 91% marginal tax rates, contained Meanwhile, a different group of nations took the place of the US. The Nordic countries have the highest taxes in th

The United Nations Development Program’s flagship index of wellbeing and social progress, th ... Development Reports, which, since 1990, have been published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The reports analyse how countries are doing in

...ed equally important roles. The United States is unique among major energy nations in giving property owners the rights to underground oil and gas deposits. E ... calls for focusing basic science on those efforts that will remain in the United States. This seems to contradict calls he makes elsewhere for the US to inv

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...h there is much disagreement about the details, libertarians are generally united by a rough agreement on a cluster of normative principles, empirical genera ...sed upon a theory of natural rights. Natural rights theories vary, but are united by a common belief that individuals have certain moral rights simply by vir

...publicschool setting. Affluent parents in exclusive areas of the northeast United States payin excess of $25,000 for tuition in elite private schools (CSC, 2 Century. In the United States, that crisis took the form of the Great Depression and ushered in a

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One interesting result Eysenck noted in his 1956 work was that in the United States and Great Britain, most of the political variance was subsumed by th ...alues of countries rather than individuals or groups of individuals within nations. Inglehart's two-factor solution took the form of Ferguson's original relig