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[[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

...a is that anarcho-capitalists are wishing for a smaller granularity. These nations have found that it is most cost-efficient to defend themselves territoriall ...rket of nations in a way they would accept being applied to markets within nations.

...onsume it. They have been banned in Canada, but continue to be used in the United States after intense lobbying from food industry interests. ...de-containing wood products are illegal in the EU and most other developed nations.

...n lifespan, the flame that seemed so dire sputtered. History tells of many nations and peoples going down with their creed, rather than admit its irrelevance, ...ow, for two centuries, we've managed to prevent a true ruling class in the United States... one able to enforce its will and whim without constraint by due p

... is exactly the way numerous American leftists would also describe today's United States. In each case, the pictured demon is authority, imposing a rigid sys ...n that it has never been healthier than today. Look at so many new and old nations around the world whose constitutions were modeled on our own, which neverth

... Marcos, Anastasio Somoza and Saddam Hussein, on the other hand, ran their nations as personal fiefdoms, enforcing programs of inherited family wealth and pow ...uch as Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR) with slogans such as "Hitler & Mao united in struggle."

...pared to accept the consequences.” Reader’s Digest excerpted it in the United States, and many of those who voted for Thomas Dewey in 1948 may have read ...lem and American Democracy and Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations. Hayek had written The Sensory Order, The Constitution of Liberty, and La

...to public consciousness last year after the Supreme Court, in its Citizens United decision, effectively allowed unrestrained corporate influence in American ...uraged small-scale, local economic activity. Published in 1776, "Wealth of Nations" predates the rise of corporate power, and suggestions by corporate liberta

...le that during the current economic crisis, the national government in the United States decided early on to turn its attentions away from employment and tow ... epidemics. The combination drove the crisis in the U.S. and several other nations.

...But, strikingly, national identity overshadowed even local identity in the United States, Europe, India, China, and most other regions.

individuals and the fruits of their labor. Even within the United The Australian ballot system, introduced into the United States in the

...onal and policy proposals that might be adopted by advanced industrialized nations. ...y of Justice, as well as the strong rightward turn in politics in both the United States and the UK in the 1980s, made it abundantly clear that the stringent

...e Compact endures…. I confess, we find among the Jews, as well as other Nations, that Men did sell themselves; but, ’tis plain, this was only to Drudgery Gray, Lewis Cecil 1958. History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860. Gloucester: Peter Smith.

...te all their supposed Ron Paul love, they trust the “globalist” United Nations even more than they do the feds.

...returned to liberalism in a pure and uncorrupted form. Some argue that the United States is a radiant monument to the liberal ideas of its Founders. Others r ...th and eighteenth centuries, of England and Scotland, the Netherlands, the United States, and France. Liberal principles were clearly expressed not just in t

...ans in the form of medicines, communications that shrink the world and get united families and friends, create opportunities for open education and learning, ...ur contractors who make the dirty job of global lean production. ―In the United States, most modern slavery involves the coercion of recent trafficked immi

..., the Nordic countries, Canada, and others—can be thought of as our peer nations. Here’s what we see when we look at these countries. To our great shame, ...m, homeland security, and intelligence in some 10,000 locations across the United States.

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{{DES | des = Developed nations around the world fund education centrally and equally. | show=}} ...at is essential for the good of the public. As the fate of individuals and nations is increasingly interdependent, the quest for access to an equitable, empow

...or about 24 percent of all income — simply wouldn’t be possible if the United States weren’t organized as it is. Just about every aspect of America’s ...ld remain to be made that the sort of market-driven economy we have in the United States serves that interest. Indeed, this case would be especially difficul

...o the success with which it harmonised diversified and warring schools and united all good things to a single end. Hume and Paley, Burke and Rousseau, Godwin ...I learn upon this subject, the more I feel convinced that the interests of nations, as well as those of individuals, so far from being opposed to each other,

.... 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”:

...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

...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

...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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...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

...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

...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)

...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

...“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

...“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

... evidenced by his influence on the position taken by the USA at the United Nations Conference on Population held in Mexico City.

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

...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

...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

...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.’”

...te all their supposed Ron Paul love, they trust the “globalist” United Nations even more than they do the feds.

...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

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,

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

...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

...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

...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.

...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

...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?

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

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

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

...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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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

...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.

...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.

...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

...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

...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.

...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

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

...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,

...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

...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.

... Waters, but outside the Exclusive Economic Zone according to the [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]]. | show=}}

...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

...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,

...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.

...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.

... 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

...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

...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.

...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.

...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.

...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.

...orking paper. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ...le Programme. Rome, Italy: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

... 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

...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

...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,

...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

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.

[[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

...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

...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

... 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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...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

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...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

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... 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

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... 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.

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...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

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...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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...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

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[[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.

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...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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...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

...iversity Drive, 3G4, Buchanan Hall, 1st Floor, MSN 3G4, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States. ... the Kenyan government’s Ministry of Agriculture (assisted by the United Nations Development Programme’s Food and Agri- culture Division), who designed th

...period of growth. A year later, Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States and also embraced free market policies. All three of these leaders p ...predator capitalism of the neo-liberalists, especially in Latin America. A united, determined and persistent people fighting for human rights, ethical busine

...ents. There are 32 families of computer models that are used by the United Nations, each government sponsored. And all of them are predicting far, far too muc

...allowed to dissolve back into the sea. To defeat the predatory outreach of nations and tides, it is clearly not enough to be offshore: True freedom floats. ... of labor, as well as capital. To its credit, the Libertarian Party of the United States has enough rigor to take an open border position. But as the ferocio

...ssary and proper for abolishing all badges and incidents of slavery in the United States.’” (quoting The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3, 20 (1883))). 60 See id. (“It should be abundantly evident that the basic policy of United States law is to grant equal access to the marketplace without regard to ra

...ded was a new frontier, and that frontier was the ocean. “Let a thousand nations bloom on the high seas,” he proclaimed, with Maoish zeal. He wanted seast ...fered a chance to marry two movements, of crypto-devotees and seasteaders, united by their desire for freedom – from convention, regulation, tax. Freedom f

Economists disagree about why European nations are less prosperous than the United States. But a leading hypothesis, advanced by Edward Prescott, a Nobel laur In other words, most European nations use that leaky bucket more than the United States does and experience greater leakage, resulting in lower incomes. By