Showing posts with label political inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political inequality. Show all posts
Monday, December 02, 2013

Quotation of the Day: Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?

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Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many dif...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

Quote of the Day: Young people get the sharp end of the (political) stick

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This underscores an important point that I’ve been writing about for a long time: young people in particular get the sharp end of the stic...
Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Quote of the Day: Bank Regulation and Fraud, the China experience

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Currently, China’s market order is relatively awful, but I believe everyone should also be full of hope. We Chinese throughout history hav...
Thursday, January 03, 2013

Vatican’s Scapegoating Capitalism

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The easiest way of blaming social evils has been to bash capitalism.  A good example has been the recent New Year homily by the Catholi...
Saturday, November 24, 2012

How Political Discrimination Kills

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George Mason University professor and author of Myth of the Rational Voter Bryan Caplan has a concise but insightful narrative about how t...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Bastiat on the Pretentious Moralism of Mercantilism

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Mercantilists operate on the dulcet sound bites that hardly stands on economic laws. The great French classical liberal Frédéric Bastia...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

The Anatomy of Rent Seeking: China Edition

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Rent seeking is simply the manipulation of the social or political environment in order to obtain wealth through monopoly privileges ( Wikip...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Public Choice in Action: Logrolling in the Philippine Mining-Tourism Policy

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Well it seems that President Aquino will be delivering a compromise over the controversial (I would add nonsensical) mining-tourism squabble...
Saturday, May 26, 2012

Obama’s Fatal Conceit: Roster of Public Investment Disasters

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The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. F. A. Haye...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Quote of the Day: The Politics of Taxation

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The fact that the income tax burden is distributed so unevenly produces great politically borne fiscal problems. People who pay little or...
Friday, April 06, 2012

Quote of the Day: Government Driven Inequality

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The regulatory and tax states have made the lower classes into pariahs from the point of view of the commercial world. They are expensive...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

UK’s Government Discourages Charity

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We are often told that the private sector is instinctively greedy, and thus requires intervention to spread ‘charity’ and ‘compassion’. W...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Inequality: Chinese Politicians Wealthier than US Peers

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Wall Street activists and the left should look at this, wealth of politicians in China and the US have been ballooning Reports the Bloombe...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

Quote of the Day: Why Government is Not Private Business

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From Professor Arnold Kling , In business it is actually really hard to get people to do what you want. In fact, understanding that fac...
Friday, January 13, 2012

Quote of the Day: Real Economic Power

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From Robert Lawson and Richard Alm , (hat tip Professor Arnold Kling) In 2010, a tiny cabal of 535 individuals — just 0.00017% of the p...
Friday, November 25, 2011

China Aims To Centralize Underground Stock Exchanges

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Informal economies are symptomatic of the state of affairs for economies struggling with byzantine legal and bureaucratic entanglements . ...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Quote of the Day: Anatomy of Crony Capitalism and Inequality

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Increases in government power expand, rather than shrink, producer-groups’ access to unwarranted privileges – privileges that are unavail...
Friday, October 21, 2011

Lew Rockwell on the REAL Evil 1%

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Mises Institute Founder and Chairman Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. eloquently writes , In the end, we end up with about 3 million people w...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

War on Naked Shorts: EU Bans Short Selling

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Politicization of the marketplace has been broadening. Trading curbs are not only applied to commodities but to short-selling as well. Fro...
Saturday, July 09, 2011

Political Dynasties, Female Political Leaders and the Philippine Setting

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In the world of politics, gender inequality has been narrowing as female politicians have been increasing around the world (but still remain...