Economic Insights
Property in One’s Labor
While doing a little research to assist my Russian colleagues with the Cato.ru essay contest and summer school, both of which focus on property and freedom, I found again this…
Bettering Lives Through Free Enterprise
My colleagues have done amazing work in the Arab world with Misbah al Hurriyya (the “Lamp of Liberty”) and now they have added online videos from their work with Al…
Wasted Aid
“Foreign aid is flowing in in large amounts, but itâ??s not reaching the people,” by Thompson Ayodele, The Sowetan, March 5, 2008 Thompson is a great fighter for liberty whom…
Trade Creates Prosperity
From the Wall Street Journal: “Ohio Needs More Foreign Trade,” by Daniel T. Griswold
Diminished Expectations for Politics
Tyler Cowen in today’s New York Times, “Itâ??s an Election, Not a Revolution” Rather than being cynics, we should be realists. Democracy is reasonably good at some things: pushing scoundrels…
A Petition of the Candlemakers
2008: EU poised to open anti-dumping probe of Chinese candles 1845: “A Petition (in English)” “Pétition des fabricants de chandelles (French)”
Not Raising Pigs
Making the Rounds on the Internet: The Rt Hon David Miliband MP Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Nobel House 17 Smith Square London SW1P…
Cudjoe v. Clooney
My friend and colleague Franklin Cudjoe, the leader of the IMANI think tank in Ghana and editor of the joint IMANI/Cato project AfricanLiberty.org, takes on the appointment of George Clooney…
Paper on Globalization and Governance
Coming Soon to an Academic Portuguese-Language Bookstore Near You! I gave a paper at a conference on governance at the University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2006 and it’s about to…