TweetOpponents of the liberal market order often play fast and loose with the facts in order to discredit two of history’s greatest champions of the liberal market order, Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek. Editor, The New York Review of Books Editor: Trevor Jackson writes of “the enthusiasm that free-market fundamentalists like Friedrich Hayek and Milton…
Slandering Friedman and Hayek
Slandering Friedman and Hayek
27 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, F.A. Hayek, history of economic thought, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Milton Friedman Tags: apartheid, regressive left, South Africa
Does visiting South Africa make you more right-wing or more left-wing?
19 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters Tags: South Africa
Perhaps “both” is the correct answer? The right-wing tendencies are easiest to explain. South Africa is obviously much wealthier than the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, and of course Westerners play a larger role in its history and also in its present. You can put different glosses on that, but a variety of those paths lead […]
Does visiting South Africa make you more right-wing or more left-wing?
South Africa’s Economy: 30 Years Since Apartheid
21 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, growth disasters Tags: South Africa
In April 1994, almost 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela was elected as the first black president of South Africa. The hopes at the time went beyond developing a representative political process, and included the idea that policies of inclusive growth would raise the standard of living for whose who had been excluded. How is that…
South Africa’s Economy: 30 Years Since Apartheid
South Africa’s Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse
04 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of crime, energy economics, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: South Africa
Why did South Africa Give up its 7 Nukes?
20 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: atomic energy, Atomic weapons, South Africa
@jeremycorbyn was a useful idiot for apartheid too
24 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, income redistribution, labour economics, law and economics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: apartheid, British politics, racial discrimination, South Africa
Mandela’s legacy: 25 years on | The Economist
28 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, income redistribution, law and economics, Marxist economics, political change, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: apartheid, South Africa
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