World Bank mustn’t say “democracy,” but “deploy troops” is OK

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World Bank mustn’t say “democracy,” but “deploy troops” is OK


The Political Economy of the Creeping Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy

http://www.bepress.com/peps/vol17/iss1/4/


Applied Ignorance, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/04/applied_ignoran.html


Artificial States

http://aidwatchers.com/2011/01/sudan-isnt-the-only-one-the-artificial-states-problem/

http://williameasterly.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/59_easterly_alesina_matuszeski_artificialstates_prp.pdf


Delusions of Grandeur: On the Creeping Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1736765


Boettke on After War

“Our only recourse once we recognize the essence of the state as a geographic monopoly on coercion rather than an accurate expression of our preferences is to constrain it, not unleash it (as our current politics too often demands).  But even if this point is missed, a critical point must be remembered — military adventurism is often the undoing of great nations throughout history.  Military (or imperial) overstretch commits a nation’s financial resources to activities it cannot sustain.”

http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2009/10/still-the-most-important-book-on-the-most-important-topic-of-our-age.html


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