Four Reasons You Probably Haven’t Thought of to be Horrified by Trump’s Presidency
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Tagged: globalization
Insuring workers against lower wages is one of the Left’s better ideas | The Economist
Is a factory worker replaced by a robot any less deserving than one who is displaced by foreign goods?
Coca-Cola: Saving the World From its Own Practices
Coca Cola is partnering to deliver clean drinking water to small villages around the world, even as it steals water from others.
Why Matt Yglesias Is Wrong About Bangladesh
If Matt Yglesias sneezes you can bet there’s going to be a chorus of left-of-center tweeters ready to unleash a tidal wave of vitriol and scorn. So go ahead and guess how ugly things...
A Romantic, a Monk, and a Neoliberal Walk Into a Bar…
On Romanticism in Politics Romanticism is wonderful in a work of fiction, art or video game. As a died-in-the-wool modern day romantic, I’ve spent most of my life doing my best to use fantasy...
On Free Markets
So look, I believe that free markets are absolutely the way to go. Don’t go with the central planners – who wants wage controls dictated from the top down? Things didn’t work out so...
Greece and the Tri-lemma
I am a proponent of globalization and I’ll admit that my understanding of financial markets is exceedingly limited, but I have a hard time disagreeing with Dani Rodrik’s claim that democracy, the nation-state, and...
This…
….is the promise of globalization. Just like coat factories that moved from the States to Eastern Europe and then off to China, and from there…to where? Factories pop up for just a few years...
Sameness
“Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with...
