Deforestation requires governments to respect private property rights, and allow individuals to rightfully acquire and cultivate farmland.
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How Not to Make Globalization Work
In Making Globalization Work, Joseph Stiglitz fails to make a good case against liberalization. Instead, he further underscores liberalization’s importance in global development, and instead misidentifies mercantilism as ” capitalism”.
Don’t Be Fooled by GDP
Third-quarter data for 2009 is misleading, because most of the growth in GDP is only temporary and will cost us the same, or more, in the near future. Economic prognostics should not be based on GDP data, but on sound economic theory.
Liberalized Capital Markets and Poverty
There seems to be a great deal of misconceptions in regards to what market liberalization is, to how Capitalism can foster economic growth in any given country and the case of globalism in the Third World. As a result, many have unconvincingly and incorrectly attributed greater impoverishment to the liberalization of capital markets.
Forestation through the Free-Market
Roughly half of the world’s original forested surface area no longer exists. We depend on these forests for our survival. The key to long-term ecological sustainability is the free-market and private property rights.
Why Capitalism Has Failed in the Third World
Hernando de Soto presents the solution to solving poverty in the Third World. The answer lies in private property rights, which he shows are virtually non-existent in countries suffering from severe economic woes.
When Charity Saved Rome
The Roman Army was not invincible, and the Roman State did not always have a bottomless treasury. During the First Punic war, Rome found herself penniless and fleetless and soon found herself in debt with the generosity of her private sector.
Antitrust is a Violation of Property Rights
Although antitrust may be seen as a valuable tool to stop the formation of monopolies, the fact of the matter is that antitrust seeks a violation of property rights and rarely has to do with monopolies, or with companies conducting “unfair” business practices. Nearly everytime, antitrust is used as a tool to destroy the most successful companies of the United States to the benefit of their competition.
Lending Regulation is Counterproductive
The mainstream has pointed its finger on the apparent lack of regulation, and therefore calls for an increase in regulation on lending for the purpose of selling houses. These regulations will make the accumulation of wealth that much more difficult. We are being condemned to a road to serfdom
Zionism’s Losing Battle
Zionism is doomed to failure, and the only Middle East peace solution is a dissolution of government and the return of economic and social freedoms to both the Jews and the Arabs.
