“It’s telling that basically no academic libertarian philosophers try to ground libertarianism in NAP; using NAP to generate libertarianism is the hobby horse of philosophical amateurs. I think the reason for that is that academic philosophers recognize that using NAP to get to libertarianism begs ...
which had yet to be born at that time: He was taking about the Northern Expedition under the command of Chiang Kai-shek as he crushed the warlord forces of northern China.
In the broader field of asylum studies, scholars point out how the symbiosis of NGOs and authorities in the asylum domain resembles an industry (Gammeltoft-Hansen and Sørensen, 2013; Hamilton Byrne et al., 2023); thus care cannot be taken as a given in what drives this type of casework...
It hasn’t turned out that way. In my lecture on the Forbes cruise, I noted that economic growth and population growth have almost disappeared in China; their central planning model of state capitalism has failed, generating massive inflation and malinvestments. They have developed great i...
If he can take away what he claims are China’s unfair advantages in bilateral trade, Trump would have delivered a serious blow to capitalism. The US would also have less incentive to stay strongly committed to balancing China’s regional influence in Asia. ...
The essence of capitalism is expressed in two of its basic features: a) profit maximization and b) market competition. In their abstract formulations none of them was supposed to have anything conspiratorial against the poor. But in real life they turn out to be the "killers" of the poor ...
Who is the father of capitalism? Who developed the international finance theories? Who is primarily credited with management theory and why? Who imposes taxes? Who propounded the unbalanced growth strategy? What are the basic principles of economics?
Critics of Blair denounced him for bringing the Labour Party towards the perceived centre ground of British politics, abandoning 'genuine' socialism and being too amenable to capitalism. Supporters, including the party's public opinion pollster Philip Gould, stated that (after four consecutive general...
His later writings suggest a shift away from classic economics' belief in the free marketplace and capitalism towards socialism, or at least a mixed economy. Elaborating on the theories of early economistsDavid RicardoandAdam Smith, Mills helped develop such economic concepts as opportunity cost, ec...
His monetarism theory proposed that money supply changes have immediate and long-term effects. In his 1963 book,A Monetary History of the United States, Milton Friedman, and co-author Anna Schwartz argued it wasmonetary policy, and not a failure of free-market capitalism, that led to theGreat...