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I have a new paper with John Chapman and Mario Mondelli, “Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Governance: Time for a Balanced View,” in the February 2013 issue of the Academy of Management Perspectives. (Ungated SSRN version here.) The paper is part of a symposium called “Private Equity: Managerial and Policy Implications.” Our paper builds on the “judgment-based ...
Marc Faber of the Gloom Doom Boom Report was interviewed by Bloomberg on Friday, and of course topic number one was the brutal takedown of gold. Reassuringly, he likes the resulting buying opportunity and expects “a major low in gold within the next two weeks.” More interesting from a theoretical/historical point of view was his ...
IN THIS ISSUE Henderson/Zunes Speaking Event Top News Opinion and analysis David Henderson and Stephen Zunes to Speak on US-Iran Relations: Prof. David R. Henderson, co-chair of Libertarians for Peace, will be one of two speakers discussing the U.S., Iran and the threat to peace. The event is on Thursday, April 18 at 7:30 PM ...
From Ron Paul’s former Congressional foreign policy aide, now executive director of his new Peace Institute, Daniel McAdams: The Neo-Conservative Era Is Dead Former Congressman Ron Paul will hold a press conference this Wednesday to launch his next big project: the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. After decades in and out of the ...
From Ron Paul’s former Congressional foreign policy aide, now executive director of his new Peace Institute, Daniel McAdams: The Neo-Conservative Era Is Dead Former Congressman Ron Paul will hold a press conference this Wednesday to launch his next big project: the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. After decades in and out of the ...
On this date in 1913, from the New York Times: POPULARITY OF THE INCOME TAX. The Chamber of Commerce has directed an inquiry into the administrative feature of the income tax after a debate in which it was said that the tax would not affect 99 per cent. of the citizenship. It was suggested that ...
Mainstream economists, especially those of the Chicago School, have often tried to dismiss the Austrian School as a cult. Here Walter Block takes on a couple of those accusers.
2013 April 11 Thursday 2048 HST INDIGO ALERT: Urge Cuban Government: Do NOT turn Hakken Family over to U.S. “Authorities” It is obvious by the spin of the State Media that the parents have already been identified as “anti-government” (read; terrorists). Cuban Interests Section (an office of the Cuban government) 2630 16th Street NW, Washington, ...
Julian Sanchez has carried criticism of the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) to a new level. The principle tells us not to commit aggression; but, as Matt Zwolinski and others have pointed out, you don’t know what counts as “aggression” unless you know what rights people have. You can’t judge who the aggressor is simply by seeing who ...
It may sound melodramatic but one of the most tragic examples of blowback from our terror war in Pakistan is that the Taliban there are now trying to prevent Pakistani children from getting the polio vaccine, which has been available to Americans since the 1950′s and is all but gone from every corner of the ...
In case you’ve been asleep for the whole of Barack Obama’s first term, here’s one fundamental doctrine that has proven itself to guide his administration: if the President does it, it’s not illegal. Mostly that has been true in the realm of secret war, indefinite detentions, spying and abridgments of Americans’ free speech rights. But ...
Based on the past few weeks’ stock market action, Japan’s decision to flood the world with yen looks like a raging success. It’s not of course. Here’s a cogent take on the subject from ex-hedge fund manager Bruce Krasting: Japan’s Gains Are Losses For Everyone Else My daughter called last night, she’s made her reservations ...
For drone war advocates, the legitimacy of the targeted killing program rests on the notion that those targets pose a threat to America and US troops in neighboring Afghanistan. The AUMF and the principle of “imminence” supposedly form the legal basis of the drone war. As the Obama administration has said, drone strikes are authorized ...
From the Bill of Rights Defense Committee: Today, April 11 come out in support for a Day of Action Against Guantanamo. Detained men are on hunger strike, putting their lives on the line for the change that President Obama promised four years ago. We can’t let indefinite detention in our names drag on another minute. ...
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