Eco-nomics [comments below, and picture above from Cato Institute website.] It’s one thing to be passionate about protecting the environment. It’s another to be successful at it. Many laws have been enacted to clean...
Economic Thinking Posts on Debate Topics
Thoughts on Books from IES-Europe Students
IES-Europe students are invited to post here comments and thoughts on books received at IES-Europe Seminars.
Trickle-Up Economics-Forbes
Highly recommended short article in June 20th issue of Forbes. Titled “Trickle-Up Economics” and by David Armstrong Naazneen Karmali. Subtitle: “How low-tech, low-cost designs are helping the poorest farmers on Earth grow their way...
Trash Technology Progress, Government Style
When I was young I used to take the trash out to the metal garbage cans by the side of the house. I wasn’t enthusiastic about it and I am sure I complained a...
Commerce Disruption: Harder to Tell Rich from Poor
Cheap clothes from China are again making it difficult to distinguish rich from poor in America. According to a recent AP story: “The Bush administration is re-imposing quotas on three categories of clothing imports...
NYT calls for more aid for Africa
According to the New York Times lead editorial on April 25, Ghana is the new success story of Africa. Though still terribly poor, Ghana is a role model of stability. And its needs only…....
Don’t Wrap the Veggies and Don’t Hector the Villagers
Too bad New York Times reporters don’t read Forbes. Contrast a Forbes article (below) about a global corporation bringing to developing countries the know how for producing and the trust for buying quality goods,...
Nairobi’s Plastic Bags are Barking
Sometime symptoms are confused with the disease that causes them. I would argue that litter is a symptom. According to an article in the April 7 New York Times (p. A4), scattered plastic bags...
Tsunami Danger…Tomorrow [updated]
[Great news! It didn’t happen. No big “global warming induced” wave. Lives saved but also little attention paid to the “Countdown to global catastrophe” environmentalist report (click link in title above to see article)....
Thinking Outside the Border Box
The aid dollars pour out to assist those whose lives have been devastated by the tsunami. Millions of dollars will help provide food, clean water, medicine, and soon shelter and rebuilding infrastructure and businesses....