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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”:

...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