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  • .... That economics was concerned with the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, and with efficiency and equity: efficiency because it was wasteful not to Recognize that what Eberstadt fears is that he sees the United States at a tipping point, “a symbolic threshold”:
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  • ...he real world system imposed a contractionary and deflationary bias on the nations that used it. ... money base (Triffin 1985: 153). Right down to the early 19th century most nations were on a bimetallic standard that was based not on gold but on silver (Bor
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  • ...d of prices of such factors,” Mises then tells us that Britain and other nations after 1945 were in fact socialist but for different reasons: ...ow also socialist too! (Mises 1998: 856). Yet there is no doubt that these nations (like the UK) also had money prices for factors of production. So how can t
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  • ...l et al. vs. James S. Brown, decided before the First Circuit Court of the United States in the October 1845 term, which is available various places on the w ...aw be adapted based on experiences and practices in other major innovating nations like Japan or Germany? What is the role of direct government subsidies for
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  • I’m helping lead the fight to defeat this radical treaty in the United States Senate and I want your help. I’m helping lead the fight to defeat this radical treaty in the United States Senate and I want your help.
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  • {{URL | url = http://gawker.com/united-nations-tells-ron-paul-to-shove-his-lawsuit-righ-509944619}} {{Quotations|United Nations Tells Ron Paul To Shove His Lawsuit Right Up His Ass|quotes=true}}
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  • ...d the expression, ‘There is a mighty lot of real estate lying around the United States which does not know who owns it,’ referring to excessive mortgages ...egarding Smoot Hawley, while it undoubtedly hurt foreign export-led growth nations dependent on the US market, it was not a major factor in the US contraction
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  • ...Parijs 1992) and some also, more speculatively, at the level of the United Nations (see e.g. Kooistra 1994, Frankman 1998, Barrez 1999). ...ir only way of getting food. In this respect, you English, like most other nations, remind me of these incompetent schoolmasters, who prefer caning their pupi
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  • ...agnets”. As suggested by the observation of inter-state migration in the United States, differences in generosity may have less impact by persuading some p ...5) and Borjas (1999) for discussions of this phenomenon in the case of the United States. 7 See the essays collected in Van Parijs ed. (2003)
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  • ...he late sixties and early seventies, it enjoyed a sudden popularity in the United States and was even put forward by a presidential candi- date, but it was s ...troduced a genuine basic income, as defined, is the state of Alaska in the United States (see e.g. Palmer 1997). A basic income can also conceivably be paid
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  • ...“Phillips curve” the government should choose. For example, should the United States accept a higher inflation rate in order to achieve a lower unemploym At the time Friedman and Phelps propounded their ideas, the United States had little experience with sustained inflation. So this was truly a
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  • ...“Phillips curve” the government should choose. For example, should the United States accept a higher inflation rate in order to achieve a lower unemploym At the time Friedman and Phelps propounded their ideas, the United States had little experience with sustained inflation. So this was truly a
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  • ... evidenced by his influence on the position taken by the USA at the United Nations Conference on Population held in Mexico City.
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  • Can we feed the world population, believed by the United Nations estimates to grow from eight to eleven billion in the next half-century? (W Timber prices stood at an all-time low in 1991... [The] eastern United States, which loggers and farmers in the 18th and 19th centuries had nearly
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  • ...CIALISM, COMMUNISM, KARL MARX, HERITAGE FOUNDATION, CANADA, JAPAN, EUROPE, UNITED STATES, PHILOSOPHY, HONG KONG, SWITZERLAND, NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, GERMANY ...t with libertarianism. There are 193 sovereign state members of the United Nations—195, if you count the Vatican and Palestine, which have been granted obse
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  • ...h have risen dramatically. It has, however, had a range of what the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has referred to as 'unintended negative consequen
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  • ...s top economic reformer in 2004, and one of the top 20 business-friendly nations in the world. ...tion, Bush declared, ‘This is the most important policy issue facing the United States today.’”
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  • ...te all their supposed Ron Paul love, they trust the “globalist” United Nations even more than they do the feds.
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  • ...an rights movement. This was officially enshrined in 1948, when the United Nations adopted a 30-point “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” putting labo ... pretense is the basis on which the ACLU currently supports the Citizens United decision, which effectively legalized the transformation of America into an
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  • T IS commonplace to speak of the present regime in the United States as a neoconservative one, and to cast as a consolidated “neocon” ...ustain or deepen local poverty and the subordination of peripheral to core nations, but also because it is compatible with, and sometimes even productive of,
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  • The United States of America has been the most exceptional thing ever to happen to hum ...ly committed a higher ratio of good deeds to crimes than any ten other top nations in the history of the world. Just look at how little-hated it is! But you f
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  • ...mous US defense spending which created the [[Pax Americana]] allowed other nations to spend less on military and more on education and development. | show=}} ...e why the United States has spent so much more money than any twenty other nations on defense. He deems it a mark of shame, but it has been a burden that larg
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  • ...ntury when a spate of lead-poisoning cases in children occurred across the United States. The symptoms—vomiting, convulsions, bleeding gums, palsied limbs, In 1922, the League of Nations proposed a worldwide lead paint ban, but at the time, the US was the larges
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  • ...Warming |global warming denialism]], the [[Tea Party]] and the Citizen’s United ruling all are in the economic interests of (and have been influenced by) t ...t industry, digging up vast landscapes in Alberta Canada occupied by First Nations and turning them into toxic wastelands while churning out deadly emissions.
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  • ...erican kids are not as serious about their studies as their peers in other nations, the schools must be to blame. At last we have the culprit on which we can ...t of children in Finland live in poverty, as compared to 20 percent in the United States. Those who insist that poverty doesn’t matter, that only teachers
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  • ...ide scale. Much of that is due to the Pax Americana, especially the United Nations. Which is strongly opposed by libertarians because of their isolationist vi ...ay to those skeptical of your argument for the positive role of the United Nations in the Pax Americana?
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  • For the first time in decades, the United States saw a steady dismantling of the laws, regulations, programs and prac ...ier to come after our other rights,” says Mike Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers. “Everything we care about is at stake, from the r
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  • As the United States slides toward the twenty-first century, the major mass movements cha ... Adjutant General" of the armed militias that have formed cells across the United States. Operating out of the American Justice Federation of Indianapolis, T
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  • In fact, of all Western nations ranked by the scale of GDP collapse from 1929 onwards during the contractio ... Amaral and MacGee (2002: 50, citing Amaral and MacGee 2001) show that the United States used public works programs much more heavily than Canada did. About
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  • ...ent could not import more of the bank notes then in use, because of United Nations sanctions, so Mr. Hussein ordered the local printing of a new currency. In ...ainst the dollar. In fall 2002, as it became more and more likely that the United States would invade, the Swiss dinar became more and more valuable.
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  • ...tp://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2014/02/mark-up-pricing-in-12-nations-empirical.html}} {{List|title=Mark-up Pricing in 11 Nations and the Eurozone: the Empirical Evidence|links=true}}
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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
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  • ...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
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  • 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
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  • ...ats to Internet Freedom: Taxes, Regulations, and any attempt by the United Nations to manage the Internet.”
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ... 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
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  • 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
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  • ...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
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  • ... 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
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  • ...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
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  • 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
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  • ...level of protectionism in the United States as compared with other Western nations in 1875 in the following data: (1) United States | 40–50%
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  • ... 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,
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • 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
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  • ...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
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  • ...se, yet are vociferously denied nonetheless by significant segments in the United States." | show=}} ...se, yet are vociferously denied nonetheless by significant segments in the United States.
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  • ...s are overblown, many said, and scientists and officials from rich Western nations who cite copious research showing it causes cancer are distorting the facts ...European Union nations have banned asbestos entirely. Others including the United States have severely curtailed its use.
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  • ...an. Readers may suspect it to be impossible even in the wealthiest of OECD nations. Yet, in those nations, productivity, wealth, and national incomes have advanced sufficiently far
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  • ...tical fact — one that is now sometimes hard to recall. The newly created United States was a mess. Politically disorganized, economically underdeveloped, a ...sly doubt, that if these States should either be wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown
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  • ...Mexico the return of the American Southwest if it would declare war on the United States. ...argument of Japanese militarists that they had no choice but to attack the United States because Roosevelt had imposed an economic embargo.
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  • ...examples of anarchic companies, so, too, are there no examples of anarchic nations. This is not an accident; all groups require some degree of central organiz ...t be explained on an individual level. One is economic depressions. In the United States, where rugged individualism and self-reliance have always been part
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  • Whatever its implications for electoral politics in the United States, though, the nullification movement is not limited to helping a part ...ers of the Frankfurt School—who fled Nazi Germany and were exiles in the United States in the 1930s.15
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  • ...of the lives of individuals and the fruits of their labor. Even within the United States, all political parties other than our own grant to government the ri No individual rights should be denied or abridge by the laws of the United States or any state of locality on account of sex, race, color, creed, age,
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  • ...iff Asness]] to show decisively that healthcare costs are very high in the United States compared to socialized countries. | show=}} ...oid that America's health care system is worse than that of other advanced nations, and Cliff directed me to this article of his, alleging that this talking p
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  • ...millions of dollars from foreign governments in recent years while pushing United States government officials to adopt policies that often reflect the donors ... House, at the Treasury Department and in Congress to double spending on a United States foreign aid program.
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  • ... Waters, but outside the Exclusive Economic Zone according to the [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]]. | show=}}
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  • ...t with libertarianism. There are 193 sovereign state members of the United Nations—195, if you count the Vatican and Palestine, which have been granted obse ... mature, well-established industrial democracies: the U.S. and Canada, the nations of western Europe and Japan. But none of these countries, including the U.S
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  • ...ed. They are horribly wrong, as this [[Freedom House]] index shows. Many nations strictly censor the internet. | show=}} ...nd analysts who wrote country reports participated in panels at the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). In Thailand,
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  • ...s, where fundamentalists fought were the corrupt warlords and pirates. The United States, with its ally, Ethiopia, have already stepped in once to keep the f ...or action. However, in 2009, action against piracy by a vast collection of nations, including all the heavy-weights, has dropped the number of pirate attacks.
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  • ...libertarians excitedly foaming about his candidacy.[4] Plus, he thinks the United States is a "Christian nation" and it's the basis of the country's laws.
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  • ... offers and went to the World Intellectual Property Organization (a United Nations agency) to lodge an intellectual property complaint in an attempt to contro That's right, Ron Paul went to the the United Nations: a global organization that he has constantly said America should renounce
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  • ...ome of today's conservative fears—from a socialist president to a United Nations-driven "one-world government"—wouldn't have sounded out of place in the e
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  • ...able to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders” (book 5, part 3, articl ...ent national backgrounds to the civic structure and related aspects of the United States.
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  • ...logy in the United States and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking nations. But they only began using the term in 1955 (Russell 1955). Before that, an ...ity should be achieved and on what resources should be equalized, they are united by the search for some version of resource equality.
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  • ...astal waters, and navigable rivers) all the way inland to cover the entire United States. Still others claim it happened when Congress granted FDR broad emer ...pened, or at least that the nails were driven into the coffin of the "old" United States, by an obscure piece of Federal legislation called the Buck Act.
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  • ...f their ability to pay (Nicholson et al 2015, Rottingen et al 2014, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network 2014, Wagstaff 2014, WHO 2014a). ...n the framework of sustainable development, Health thematic report, United Nations.
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  • ...orking paper. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ...le Programme. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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  • ... gross national product (GNP) in selected Latin American countries and the United States, 2003 Trends in infant mortality, Cuba and the United States, 1975–2004
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  • ...The phrase "system of naturalliberty"derives from Adam Smith'sThe Wealthof Nations(NewYork:RandomHouseModernLibrary1,937),bookIVchap.ix,p.651.David Gauthierap ...nglishPoor Lawsfor granted,and does not object to public charity (Wealthof Nations, p. 135ff.).He objects ratherto the "settlement"requirement (that to be eli
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  • ...cribed in such a manner. Well, in the libertarian vision, individuals, not nations, would be sovereign. This would not spell the end of civilization. Yes, the 66 The United Nations is a debating club, with no power independent of its constituent elements,
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  • ...triot movement is like a big quilt, a patchwork of factual items -- United Nations reports, government documents, news stories -- that are patched together wi ...`sovereign citizen.’’ This ostensibly frees you from obligation to the United States -- which Patriots say is just an illegal corporation based in Washin
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  • Strictly speaking, right-to-work laws exist only in the United States. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1949, which banned "closed shops" where wor ...s to join a union[9], so strictly speaking one might say that all European nations are "right-to-work" states.
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  • [[Category:The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens]] ...hidden within them. And a new book by Gabriel Zucman, The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, reveals, as never before, the extent of their r
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  • ...hat advocate for better business standards. Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, which was an argument for free markets, but he also wrote The Theory of Mo Perception affects the sense of trust. Consider the United States: in the Revolutionary War, the U.S. government issued paper money, t
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  • ...Mead Johnson reported that “approximately 47% of all infants born in the United States during the 12-month period [that] ended December 31, 2015 benefited ...ffering any personal hardship at all. As Adam Smith noted in The Wealth of Nations: “In the long run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his ma
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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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ... 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
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  • ...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).
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  • ...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
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  • It seems to me that the United States (and other nations) can reap many benefits from [a national youth service program], in additio
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  • ... 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
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  • ...uatemala, india, kenya, Mexico, nepal, tanzania, thailand, Uganda, and the United states, with new centers being established in ethiopia and china (see Gibso
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  • 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
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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
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  • ... 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
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  • ...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):
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  • ...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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  • ...e=Phase-out of leaded petrol brings huge health and cost benefits-- United Nations–backed study|links=true}} ...e=Phase-out of leaded petrol brings huge health and cost benefits-- United Nations–backed study|quotes=true}}
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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
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  • ...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
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  • [[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
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