Economic Nationalism: From Mercantilism to World War II
[Excerpted from chapter 3 of Studies in Economic Nationalism.] We now move to a period that, from the point of view of the present inquiry, is of particularly great importance. …
[Excerpted from chapter 3 of Studies in Economic Nationalism.] We now move to a period that, from the point of view of the present inquiry, is of particularly great importance. …
One of the most spectacular events in the startup world this year was the collapse of The We Company IPO. Originally WeWork, We is a company that is, essentially, a …
Recent protests in Hong Kong, along with the resulting fall out from international corporations questioned for their relationships with mainland China, has placed a renewed focus on the authoritarianism of …
The presidential election of 1896 was a great national referendum on the gold standard. The Democratic Party had been captured, at its 1896 convention, by the Populist, ultra-inflationist, anti-gold forces, …
China’s economy has been growing dramatically for many years to become one of the world’s leading economies. According to the World Bank, in 2018, China’s GDP (nominal) was 13,608 trillion …
Thanks to the proliferation of body cameras and security cameras attached to homes and businesses, police are far more frequently being caught lying. For example, this month, NYPD cop Michael …
Even The New York Times now admits there is a deep state — and that it serves its own agenda while ignoring the elected civilian government. Original Article: It’s Trump …
[Chapter Three of The Conquest of Poverty.] Any study of poverty should logically begin with a definition of the problem we are trying to solve. Precisely what is poverty? Of …
[Vladimir Bukovsky, tr. Alyona Kojevnikov, Judgment in Moscow: Soviet Crimes and Western Complicity (Ninth of November Press, 2019), 707 pages.] Few remember him today, for reasons that should unsettle us …
The standard justification for intellectual property — i.e., patents and copyrights and trademarks — is that the creative process would be significantly reduced if such protection did not exist. The …