At the New York Times, you can watch a slide show called “ Realities of Labor “ written by Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof. Some of the images are heart-rending, but the message is ambiguous: one is left to wonder whether or not the Times is for or against free trade. The presentation begins with images of Howard Dean and the democratic
New models of “urban planning” are all the rage: the young, hip, creative workforce is attracted by art lofts, local music, entertainment districts, urban recreation...and we see it all in “downtown revitalization” programs aimed not at cutting taxes or providing safe neighborhoods but at providing the various amusements and shiny objects that the
On another Times editorial : Fact 1: some people lose from globalization in the short run (high-wage Americans who are temporarily unemployed). Fact 2: lots of people gain from globalization in the short run (masses of people in poverty-stricken countries who no longer have to scratch the ground for subsistence and can instead earn decent money
“The Medicare hospital trust fund will be insolvent by 2019 , seven years earlier than previously forecast, if it continues on its current path, government-appointed trustees warned in their annual report Tuesday” And Social Security will be broke by
The Free Market 24, no. 6 (June 2004) It is always the fashion among many intellectuals to blame society’s ills on the free market. One college newspaper recently argued that the market is “The God That Sucked.” The course summaries in my university’s catalog, the themes of the lecture series, and the editorial content of the student newspapers
From an Alternet.org interview with “Students Against Sweatshops” author Liza Featherstone: “Some of the more anarchist types are very critical of activists who don’t lead an alternative, anti-capitalist lifestyle (growing their own food, composting, making their own clothes, etc.). Others say that kind of self-sufficient life isn’t really
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.