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Showing posts with label free market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free market. Show all posts
Monday, November 6, 2017

Diane Coyle — 'Free' markets

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The rhetoric of ‘free markets’ is misleading. I certainly agree with this last point, as does anybody who (like me) has spent some time a...
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Thursday, June 22, 2017

Chris Dillow — Free Markets Need Equality

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I would change the title by replacing "equality" with "symmetry." There’s one thing that’s crucial – equality [symmet...
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Monday, June 19, 2017

Nick Johnson — Free-market policies rarely make poor countries rich (Ha-Joon Chang’s Thing 7)

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These telling extracts from Ha-Joon Chang ‘s 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism come from ‘Thing 7’ (p. 63-5): [the country d...
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Martin S. Feldstein — Why the U.S. Is Still Richer Than Every Other Large Country

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Will America maintain these advantages? In his 1942 book, Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy , Joseph Schumpeter warned that capitalism w...
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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Lord Keynes — Trump on the Free Market

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When was the last time a Republican president was so hostile to free trade and dismissed the usual “free market” apologetics as the “dumb m...
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Saturday, July 9, 2016

Blake Smith — Slavery as free trade

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For nearly four centuries, the Atlantic slave trade brought millions of people into bondage. Scholars estimate that around 1.5 million peop...
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Monday, May 9, 2016

Let's stop right now talking about the fictional "free market." Newsflash, there is no free market.

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The "free market." Who invented this phrase? Whoever did should get an award for marketing. That's because there's ...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Bill Mitchell — The government really is instrumental in creating growth

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Sometimes one reads a press article that is so obviously misleading that it is hard to know where to start with it. But perhaps the conclus...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

John Komlos — 15 Curses of Unregulated Markets

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Markets don’t work the way economics textbooks say they do. While I do believe in the power of markets to cultivate social good, they have ...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Mark Thoma — The Problem with Completely Free Markets

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Some weekend reading. Econ 101 — because some people need constant reminding of the difference between so-called free markets and genui...
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Friday, August 22, 2014

Peter Radford — Is Economic Orthodoxy Anti-Democracy?

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Yes it is. The explanation is found in the genesis of classical economics and then in its idealization of the marketplace. "It'...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

The Economist — John D. Rockefeller Defended [Review of Titan: The Life Of John D. Rockefeller Sr. By Ron Chernow]

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Nowadays, says Ron Chernow, most people imagine that American businessmen believe in competition. In fact, as he shows, in his thorough and...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Peter Radford — Adam Smith – Socialist?

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It is, apparently, not odd to attend classes in a business school and learn all about modern microeconomic theory. The lessons hammer away ...
Thursday, November 7, 2013

David Edwards — Fox Business’ John Stossel ‘upset’ poor people aren’t selling kidneys for $1,200 (via Raw Story )

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Fox Business’ John Stossel ‘upset’ poor people aren’t selling kidneys for $1,200 (via Raw Story ) Libertarian Fox Business host on Thur...
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Friday, August 23, 2013

Daniel Little — Friedman on racial discrimination

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Daniel Little buries Milton Friedman's argument in Capitalism and Freedom on the free market as the antidote to racism. Understanding So...
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Monday, July 8, 2013

Hunter — Conservative guns-in-schools plan runs afoul of the insurance industry

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The market gods speak. Conservatives feel the corporate power: Now the private insurance industry is balking at conservative notions of p...
Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Mark Thoma — 7 Important Examples of How Markets Can Fail

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Omitted the one that Bill Black has been documenting — white collar crime, the creation of criminogenic environments, and control fraud. Th...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Rowan BosworthDavies — How the legacy of Thatcher and Reagan made the 2008 financial crisis inevitable

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The consequences of Thatcher and Reagan's Friedman and Hayek-inspired free market utopianism and market fundamentalism. Adds more detail...
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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Chris Dillow — Jungles, Matches & Optimality

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What I'm edging towards here is a point made (pdf) - in a different context - by Amartya Sen, that Pareto optimality isn't as great...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Lynne Kiesling — “Free Market Fairness” and self-authorship

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John [Tomasi]’s project is laudable — rediscover and synthesize common ethical ground between the two dominant branches of classical libera...
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