Showing posts with label laissez faire capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laissez faire capitalism. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Quote of the Day:The Virtue of a Free System: The Consumer’s Plebiscite

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The test of an economic system lies in the choices it offers, the alternatives that are open to the people living under it. When choices ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Do you know that Shanghai was once an Almost Free City-State?

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Austrian economist Dr. Richard Ebeling narrates of Shanghai's laissez faire capitalism experience at the Northwood University blog :  ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Richard Ebeling: The Case For Freedom and Free markets in the writings of Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek and Ayn Rand

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Dr. Richard Ebeling, American libertarian author, former president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and professor of economic...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Quote of the Day: Selfishness, via Profits, Guides People to Serve the Need of Others More Effectively

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making money honestly means creating something other people value, not necessarily what you value. The more money I want, the more I have ...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

Quote of the Day: The Ethics of Free Enterprise Capitalism is Value Creation

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With few exceptions entrepreneurs who start successful businesses don't do so to maximize profits. Of course they want to make money, ...
Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Quote of the Day: To Achieve Liberty, Envy and Intolerance have to be Overcome

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To achieve liberty and peace, two powerful human emotions have to be overcome. Number one is "envy" which leads to hate and clas...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Video: Miltion Friedman on the Difference Between Pro Free Enterprise from Pro Business

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Associating capitalism or free markets with pro-business agenda remains a popular or common misperception, which the late illustrious Nobel...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Thanksgiving Day: The Triumph of Capitalism

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Americans celebrate the traditional Thanksgiving day today. But many fail to realize that the quintessence of Thanksgiving is the show...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Informal Economy Drives Latin America’s Middle Class

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Experts are puzzled at Latin America’s rapid growth of the middle class. The Economist writes But the political implications of Lat...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Quote of the Day: Wealth Drives Evertything

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Wealth drives everything . Military might, scientific achievement, medical breakthroughs, and technological advancement are all possible i...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Survey: China a Marxist Country with Blossoming Capitalist Sentiment

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It appears that the average Chinese has been more accommodative to capitalism than Americans. From Bloomberg , (bold mine) Survey ...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Arts: How Socialism Sapped Creativity and Innovation

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From Humanities Professor Camille Paglia on an OpEd on "How Capitalism Can Save Art" at the Wall Street Journal (hat tip Cato...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

Laissez Faire Capitalism: Private Jet Gets Bigger, Faster and Cheaper

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Ah, the beauty of laissez faire capitalism as revealed by the Private Jet industry. First, the financial bubble bust which affected th...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Picture of the Day: Capitalism is for People as They are

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From a signboard of a combined Coffee Shop and Bar in Greenwich Village, NYC, as posted by New York University’s Development Research Inst...
Thursday, June 07, 2012

China’s Deepening Capitalism: Mushrooming Self Development Facilities

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Self help or self development books, seminars and conferences have been mushrooming over China. Capitalism has been gaining the upper hand. ...
Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Facebook Launches Organ Donation Program

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Facebook will use its social networking platform to facilitate a global organ donation program. From abcnews.go.com Conversations ove...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Lessons from the Roman Era Socialism

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Inflationism had only been part of the financial repression policies that led to the fall of the Roman empire. Surviving the Roman empire’s...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Chart of the Day: Capital Accumulation is Key to Economic Prosperity

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Professor Steve Landsburg posted on his blog a graph from a textbook of his colleague exhibiting the tight correlations between the incre...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Shale Oil Revolution: (Laissez Faire) Capitalism Deals Peak Oil a Fatal Blow

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I used to believe in peak oil. That all changed when I got immersed in Austrian school of economics. I have come to realize that we are dyna...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Laissez Faire Capitalism and City Competitiveness

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The Economist devised a new measure of competitiveness applied to cities. They write The 120 cities in the index are home to some...