Why a far-right candidate easily put an end to 13 years of corrupt left wing rule in Brazil
13 Jan 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Brazil
Why Young People Helped Elect A Far-Right Authoritarian In Brazil (HBO): the left-wing incumbents were crooks
01 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: Brazil
Astonishingly ignorant @Oxfam clip on Brazilian poverty
09 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, property rights Tags: Brazil, doing business, Oxfam
Oxfam International managed to post a video clip blaming Brazilian poverty on inequality then tweet the same day on an important cause of poverty in developing nations. That important cause was the difficulty of establishing property rights in poor countries.
Brazil is a terrible place to start a business, register property, pay taxes and trade across borders to name but a few of many deficiencies is a business environment. Little wonder that it is poor because of all these factors that are within the remit of its government.
Source: Doing Business in Brazil – World Bank Group.
Oxfam International would serve the poor of Brazil and the rest of the Third World far better by spending more time complaining about bad business environments.
Countries that embraced capitalism such as in East Asia did far better than those in Latin America that hesitated and preferred crony capitalism.
Oxfam mislead its readers about the degree of inequality in Latin America compared to the past.
On the decline of socialism in the Americas
21 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2016 presidential election, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela
The impact of neoliberalism on labour market freedom in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela
22 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, unions Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, conspiracy theories, employment law, employment regulation, Index of Economic Freedom, Leftover Left, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberalism, Twitter left, Venezuela
All was quiet on the neoliberalism front in Latin America for the last 20 years. In yet another defeat for the Mont Pelerin Society led transnational conspiracy, labour market freedom has declined in the four countries in figure 1. I’ve always had my doubts about the ability of a transnational conspiracy to be led by a society with such a crappy website.
Figure 1: Index of Economic Freedom, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela, 95 – 2015
Source: Index of Economic Freedom 2015.
The impact of neoliberalism on economic freedom in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela since 1995
20 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, conspiracy theories, Index of Economic Freedom, Leftover Left, Mont Pelerin Society, neoliberalism, Twitter left, Venezuela
All was quiet on the neoliberalism front in Latin America for the last 20 years. In yet another defeat for the Mont Pelerin Society led transnational conspiracy, economic freedom has been pretty stable in Chile for 20 years and in the serious decline in Venezuela and Argentina – see figure 1. Not much happening in Brazil either on the neoliberalism front – see figure 1. I’ve always had my doubts about the ability of a transnational conspiracy to be led by a society with such a crappy website.
Figure 1: Index of Economic Freedom, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Venezuela, 95 – 2015
Source: Index of Economic Freedom 2015.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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