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Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Governance
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 ...
The Long Wave Versus the Printing Press: Another 2008?
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 ...
Antiwar.com Newsletter | April 12, 2013
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 ...
Ron Paul Launches New Peace Institute
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 ...
Ron Paul Launches New Peace Institute
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 ...
“The Tax Was Most Popular Before It Was Laid”
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 ...
Walter Block on Austrian Economics as a Cult
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.
INDIGO ALERT: Urge Cuban Government: Do NOT turn Hakken Family over to U.S. “Authorities”
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, ...
Is the NAP a Useless Tautology?
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 ...
How the CIA is Wrecking Polio Eradication in Pakistan
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 ...
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