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Thursday, September 25, 2008

COMPETITION, MARKETS AND DISCRIMINATION

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Professors' Gary S. Becker and Richard Posner articles on the economics of discrimination ( here and here ) gave me an interesting moti...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

CUTTING TAXES, FALLING POVERTY

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Art Laffer and Stephen Moore offer a brilliant evidence on how lower tax rates expanded income increases ( here ): "The new Census Bure...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

SLOVENIA: ELECTION AND THE ECONOMY

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In Sunday, voters in my native Slovenia elected left-leaning political party that will presumably hold the majority in the national parliame...
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ECONOMIC FREEDOM OF THE WORLD 2008

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Cato Institute has just published recent report on the state of Economic Freedom in the World, measuring the level of economic liberty in ea...

DOING BUSINESS 2009

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World Bank has issued the recent report Doing Business 2009, comparing countries throughout the world regarding the ease of doing business a...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

WHY HUMAN CAPITAL MATTERS

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Professor Glaeser of Harvard University wrote an interesting article, addressing the issue of importance of human capital for economic growt...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

DON BOUDREAUX ON THE ECONOMICS OF PROSPERITY

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Donald Boudreaux recently published an article where he discusses the emergence of prosperity ( here )

THE POTENTIAL OUTCOME OF OBAMANOMICS

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Tom Wilson, a British speechwriter, wrote an opinion ( link ) in Wall Street Journal, showing incredibly similar parallels between Obama...
Wednesday, September 03, 2008

TAX CUTS IN EUROPE

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Forbes reports ( link ) that Hungarian Prime Minister announced the abolition of 4 percent solidarity tax, a unique layer of tax on company ...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

KENNETH ROGOFF ON FINANCIAL CRISIS

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Kenneth Rogoff of the Harvard University, former chief economist at the IMF, has drawn a perspective on current financial crisis ( link ) th...
Monday, August 18, 2008

WHAT IS THE COST OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

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Inside Higher Ed published an interactive article about political correctness by discipline. The article can be read here .

LESSONS FROM MONETARY POLICY: 1930 AND 2007

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Martin Feldstein ( link ) and Barry Eichengreen ( link ) offer a closer perspective on the comparison of the state of monetary policy at the...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

CLASSICAL LIBERALISM, PUBLIC CHOICE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF SLOVENIA

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I recently listened the serie called "Intelekta" ( link ) on Radio Slovenia. The topics of the talk was classical liberalism and i...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

THE MYTH OF SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS

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Edwin M. Truman highlighted the revealed preferences of sovereign wealth fund establishment. The article can be read here .

GERMANY'S GDP DECLINED

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German GDP contracted by 0,5 percent as reported by Financial Times ( link ): "Germany’s economy contracted less than feared in the sec...

ANOTHER EVIDENCE WHY EU FARM SUBSIDIES ARE DEADLY HARMFUL

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EU Observer has recently quoted ( link ) the study conducted by a team of British scientists showing that, each year, farm subsidies on beha...
Thursday, July 17, 2008

FED INTERVENTION

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Allan H. Meltzer explains why Fed should be taken away from investment banks ( link ): "So what can taxpayers expect from an increase i...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH TAX HAVENS

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One of the most interesting discussions among the economists and policy experts is a debate about the role of tax havens and offshore destin...
Sunday, July 06, 2008

IS SLOVENIA'S HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM SUSTAINABLE?

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Institute for Economic Research in Health Care (INERHC) issued a thorough economic analysis and review of Slovenian health-care system ( lin...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

BEST PLACES FOR DOING BUSINESS

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Forbes.com recently published its annual global research ( link ) on the attraction of particular countries on doing business from macroecon...
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