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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