Archive for the ‘Free-Markets’ Category
Cato’s Johan Norberg has a detailed rebuttal on Naomi Klein’s superficial claims about Milton Friedman and free-market policies made in her book, The shock doctrine. Here’s a video of Norberg explaining how Ms Klein misrepresents what Friedman said: Al…
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Cato’s Johan Norberg has a detailed rebuttal on Naomi Klein’s superficial claims about Milton Friedman and free-market policies made in her book, The shock doctrine. Here’s a video of Norberg explaining how Ms Klein misrepresents what Friedman said: Al…
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Inspired by Bill Gates’ speech at the World Economic Forum, someone has created a creative capitalism blog with an impressive list of contributors, ranging from Gates to Buffet to this latest piece from Jagdish Bhagwati. Even the late Milton Friedman …
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Drew Carey in another installment of his series at Reason.tv takes a swing at the U.S. protectionists’ (Obama-types) fear mongering over NAFTA.
Something that’s rarely understood by protectionist all over the world is that the biggest source of “job…
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Now, they have porn for blind people. Thankfully, the web is not regulated.[via India Uncut]
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The Sri Lankan left (and it’s modern-day ‘mainstream’ apologists) often point to 1977, the year when Sri Lanka started liberalizing the economy to describe anything ‘bad’ to do with Sri Lanka, from moral degradation, the persistence of poverty and occa…
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If you are a socialist, that is.The chart below from Gapminder shows increasing incomes per person at accelerating rates after president JR Jaywardene liberalized the Sri Lankan economy in 1977. Certainly, this isn’t good news for the lefties.(a still …
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Apparently Airtel, scheduled to start operations in Sri Lanka this year, have run into some trouble. I like Airtel, it’s my operator of choice whenever I’m in India, I’ve got good memories with it. It worked well for me, and i did do some traveling acr…
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Recently the Island carried an article with the same title where the writer (a Kath Noble) goes on to explain the implications of the Indo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Now, I have seen worse articles on trade and economics in the Sri Lankan press…
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