Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine | Video on TED.com
Posted: May 1, 2012 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
Matt Ridley’s 17 Reasons to Be Cheerful
Posted: April 3, 2012 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Matt Ridley’s 17 Reasons to Be Cheerful
Map of the Day: How Long are World Leaders Staying in Power?
Posted: March 7, 2012 Filed under: Economic Freedom Leave a comment »http://www.aviewfromthecave.com/2012/03/map-of-day-how-long-are-world-leaders.html
Tariff liberalization and trade specialization: Lessons from India
Posted: November 30, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Protectionism Leave a comment »http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147596711000199
Trade liberalization and unemployment: Theory and evidence from India
Posted: November 30, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Protectionism Leave a comment »http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387811000332
Steven Pinker on The Decline of Violence & “The Better Angels of Our Nature”
Posted: November 3, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Violence, War Leave a comment »http://reason.com/blog/2011/11/03/steven-pinker-on-the-decline-o
Now and Then
Posted: October 13, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth Leave a comment »http://healthblog.ncpa.org/now-and-then/
Episode Two: Economic Freedom in America Today
Posted: October 12, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Regulation Leave a comment »http://www.economicfreedom.org/2011/10/11/episode-two-economic-freedom-in-america-today/
Economic Freedom Needed To Alleviate Poverty Around The World
Posted: October 3, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Poverty Leave a comment »http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=3512
Compassion
Posted: October 3, 2011 Filed under: Charity, Economic Freedom, Inequality, Poverty Leave a comment »http://healthblog.ncpa.org/compassion/
Economic Freedom of the World: Lessons for the U.S.
Posted: September 26, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom Leave a comment »http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-gwartney/economic-freedom-of-the-w_b_980441.html?ir=Business
Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
Posted: September 20, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth Leave a comment »http://www.ted.com/talks/niall_ferguson_the_6_killer_apps_of_prosperity.html
Economic freedom, culture, and growth
Posted: September 9, 2011 Filed under: Culture, Economic Freedom Leave a comment »http://www.springerlink.com/content/y552375w11u34376/
An Animated 4-Minute History of Econ
Posted: August 26, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
An Animated 4-Minute History of Econ
Jesus Christ!
Posted: August 16, 2011 Filed under: Capitalism, Economic Freedom, Poverty, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Jesus Christ!
The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Posted: July 25, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Free Trade, Globalization Leave a comment »http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2011/07/25/another-benefit-of-globalization/
Foot Voting for Freedom
Posted: July 20, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Personal Freedom Leave a comment »http://volokh.com/2011/07/19/foot-voting-for-freedom/
Humans: Why They Triumphed
Posted: July 12, 2011 Filed under: Division of Labor, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Free Trade, Prosperity Leave a comment »http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703691804575254533386933138.html
Blue-Collar Anticapitalism – Ludwig von Mises – Mises Daily
Posted: July 11, 2011 Filed under: Business, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://mises.org/daily/5397/BlueCollar-Anticapitalism
Government size and economic growth
Posted: July 8, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Government size and economic growth
Two thousand years in one chart
Posted: June 29, 2011 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth Leave a comment »http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/quantifying-history&fsrc=nwl
Great Video About Economic Liberty & Quality of Life
Posted: June 29, 2011 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Freedom, GDP, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Great Video About Economic Liberty & Quality of Life
Open Letter to the President of the Sodexo Foundation
Posted: December 23, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Poverty, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Open Letter to the President of the Sodexo Foundation
Deirdre McCloskey interviewed
Posted: December 4, 2010 Filed under: Capitalism, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Free Trade Leave a comment »http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/12/farmers_forager.html
“You can measure the shifting significance of bourgeois words: honesty, profit, responsibility, monopoly, etc., by looking in historical dictionaries and historical texts in all the languages of commerce, from 1600 to 1848. “Responsibility,” for example, is entirely modern (and thus measurable: It’s zero before 1800, commonplace afterward). The equivalent word before 1800, as one can see from the Oxford Thesaurus (based on the Oxford English Dictionary), is “duty.” In a hierarchical society, one has one’s duty to one’s master, period. In a modern and bourgeois society, the duty is turned inward and becomes a character trait essential for a modern enterprise: responsibility.”
Maybe the coolest thing ever
Posted: December 3, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Health, WHO - Health Care Stats Leave a comment »http://cafehayek.com/2010/12/maybe-the-coolest-thing-ever.html
Property rights protection and corporate R&D: Evidence from China
Posted: June 1, 2010 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Private Property Leave a comment »Following the recent literature on institutions and economic growth, we examine the effects of property rights protection on corporate R&D. Using a unique 2003 World Bank survey of over 2400 firms in 18 Chinese cities, we obtain the following findings: (1) property rights protection is positively and significantly related to corporate R&D activity (for both process and product R&D); (2) government services and helping hand are conducive to corporate R&D, while informal payments to government officials are not; and (3) government ownership of firms and direct appointment of CEOs are negatively associated with corporate R&D activities. We also find that corporate R&D is positively related to firm size, and access to finance, but negatively related to product market competition and firm age.
Civil Liberties and Economic Development
Posted: May 22, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Freedom, Economic Growth, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=7780532
Economic Freedom and Net Business Formation
Posted: April 7, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Freedom, Entrepreneurship Leave a comment »http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj27n1/cj27n1-2.pdf
Violent conflicts and governance challenges in West Africa: the case of the Mano River basin area
Posted: March 26, 2010 Filed under: Anarchy, Corruption, Democracy, Development Economics, Economic Freedom, Endogenous Rules, Peace, War Leave a comment »“The Mano River basin area has become a conflict zone, in which state failure and violence in Liberia has spread to Sierra Leone and the forest region of Guinea. This article traces the origins of the conflicts to governance failures in all three states, and analyses their incorporation into a single conflict system, orchestrated especially through the entrepreneurial abilities and ambitions of Charles Taylor. Peace settlements negotiated to end the violence in Liberia and Sierra Leone failed, both because of the misconceived power-sharing formula that they embodied, and because they failed to take account of the complex linkages between conflicts across the basin area. The way forward lies in a multilevel basin-wide approach, which seeks to move beyond the failed formula of attempting to reconstitute state power, in favour of constructing institutions of accountable democratic governance at multiple levels from the local level to the regional level and beyond.”
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=240015
Bostwana – A Diamond in the Rough
Posted: March 26, 2010 Filed under: Development Economics, Economic Freedom, Property Rights Leave a comment »http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/botswana-a-diamond-in-the-rough/
HT: Dustin Anderson
