Showing posts with label Economic development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economic development. Show all posts
Saturday, January 17, 2026

What was wrong with the Washington Consensus?

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  Just as I was reading the final chapters of William Easterly’s book, Violent Saviours : The West, the Rest, and Capitalism Without Consent...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Is it too soon to be asking in what part of the world will the next golden age be located?

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  The question posed above occurred to me as I was reading the final pages of Johan Norberg’s latest book, Peak Human : What We Can Learn fr...
Monday, June 16, 2025

What role has political entrepreneurship played in changes in human freedom this century?

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  For the purposes of this exercise, I have used the Human Freedom Index , published by Cato and the Fraser Institute,   to identify which ...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

What role does political entrepreneurship play in institutional change?

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  One of the reasons I quoted that passage by Douglass North is because it mentions political entrepreneurship. I went looking for a quote f...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Why is cheap domestic gas a bad policy choice?

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  This is a guest post by my old friend, Geoff Edwards. I refer to him as my old friend not because of his age (he is not much older than me...
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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...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

What makes a narrative good?

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  I asked myself the question posed above as I was reading Mich èle Lamont’s book , Seeing Others , How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World...