A Christmas Carol in Cold, Cold Europe
Charles Dicken’s novel, A Christmas Carol, was set in England in the early 1840s. We hope England and Europe escapes the cold of the winter of 1840-41. Modern industrial societies should be safe from...
Category: Globalism/Nationalism
Free Trade: A look at Hong Kong with Milton Friedman and Johan Norberg
The economics of trade and trade policy will be key to the NCFCA resolution on import and/or export policy reform. And for the Stoa league with its U.S.-European country or countries resolution, trade policy...
Reforming US Import/Export Policies
The 2022-23 NCFCA team policy topic is: The United States Federal Government should significantly reform its import and/or export policy. Congress has passed and the USFG administers a wide range of import and export...
Winter Holidays: Persistent Parties and Democracy, Genetic Engineering, Traditional Wives
For the online Winter Holidays Open, three motions have been announced: • In emerging democracies, this house would break up persistently dominant political parties. (rounds 1 and 2)• Assuming the technology exists, this house...
Algeria and The Demobilization
Selected Essays on Political Economy by Frédéric Bastiat Four orators are all trying to be heard in the Assembly. At first they speak all at once, then one after the other. What have they...
Ursula K. Le Guin: “Throughout Europe, stretched the silent network of liberalism”
Novelist Ursula K. Le Guin passed away recently. In my teens I read nearly all her science fiction novels, and have read the Earthsea Trilogy many times since. The essay below (revised here) was...
Guns, Germs, and Stealing
From Unlucky Prehistoric Geography to Unfortunate Institutions TodayGregory Rehmke Presented at APEE Session: “Cultural and Geographic Links to Economic Growth.” April 8, 2002 Until very recently the only way people could get to Argentina...
More on Globalization – Covid and its effects
by Marina Tanase [Follow-up to popular earlier post by Marina Tanase, The Real Story of Globalization.] Here I am …- me again. I find myself writing one more time about globalization. My interest in...
Migration Toward Economic Freedom
A previous post on migration emphasized the importance of measuring economic freedom to judge policy reforms effective in reducing barriers to enterprise and prosperity. In that post Economic Freedom Indexes were recommended as tools...
Refugee Special Enterprise Zones (R-SEZs)… [Updated]
Many proposals call for the European Union to increase skilled immigration, as well as reforms for less skilled immigrants and asylum seekers. Populist and nationalist groups say new immigrants will “take” jobs locals could...