Showing posts with label free trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free trade. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Can the concept of political entrepreneurship help us to understand authoritarianism?

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  In this essay I discuss the relevance of the concept of political entrepreneurship to an understanding of political outcomes that have sub...
Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Is Alexander Hamilton's ideal of a modern commercial republic still relevant today?

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  Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as secretary to the Treasury from 1789 to 1795 during t...
Monday, January 8, 2024

Was British colonial government as bad as modern critics would have us believe?

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  Nigel Biggar acknowledges that British colonialism contained evils and injustices, but he judges it to have been much better than its mode...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Where have the supporters of capitalism gone?

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  Cartoon by Peter Nicholson from “ The Australian ” newspaper:  www.nicholsoncartoons.com.au Some erstwhile supporters of capitalism prob...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

To what extent do international differences in economic freedom reflect people's values?

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  This is a companion piece to the preceding post in which I considered the extent to which international differences in personal freedom r...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Can cottage industries exist in a machine age?

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 J C Kumarappa posed that question his book, Economy of Permanence, which was first published in 1945. He argued that in the final analysis...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Does voting just encourage them?

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  A couple of weeks ago the thought struck me that it was about time I wrote something about the personal ethics of voting. That turned out ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

What happened to creative capitalism?

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  The question I have posed above strikes me as being delightfully ambiguous. It could be asking what happened to bring to an end the era in...