whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

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...versation on the shape of future markets then they need to learn the language. Tramping through 1960s world-communist jargon is equivalent to discussing genetics from the point of view of Lamarck\'s ...

2. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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...cies When the Soviet Union collapsed Boris Yeltsin, then Russia's president, attempted to launch the ex-communist state directly into a free-market economy. He disbanded the central state, sold ...

3. Everything is coming up Capitalism
(Analysis/Analysis)

... As the wall fell, as the unhealthy, drably dressed, survivors of the Soviet States emerged, driving clunky Communist-designed vehicles, in their lumpy Communist-designed shoes what could be a better...

4. The Golden Pen, Yahoo, and the worst country in the world to be a journalist
(Analysis/Analysis)

...sented the award, followed up: "Even today, most Chinese know nothing about what happened that day. The Communist regime continues to prevent the Chinese media from talking and writing about it o...

5. Sarkozy's French Election: when elephants fight only the grass gets trampled
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nation to build his support base.  Royal, having no other choice, reached out to the most left-wing and communist elements; promising vast amounts of state intervention and state spending. Now, h...

6. Jacob's ANC Ladder: the power of the state, the power of the party
(Analysis/Analysis)

...e Mbeki fraternity of economic rationalists and non-interventionists, and the populist fraternity of unions, communists and fellow travellers.  The Unions are now in the ascendancy after Mbeki sq...

7. Racial arguments muddy human rights and the ending of poverty
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...ehicle, the excuse, for the savage dictatorship we were subjected to, but it is not the cause.  Just as communist dictatorships, fascist rule, Nazi propaganda all used some form of ideology to dr...

8. The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o imagining the extent of development.  And innovation is accelerating. When Russia emerged from their communist experiment it was as a nation materially and spiritually worse-off than they were...

9. Is the ownership of property at odds with the needs of the poor?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...asure of general security, its entire abolition." Since then a great deal of effort has been put in by communists, socialists, new-economists and trades unions to exercise exactly that. Most re...

10. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...d capitalism is no different from the internal combustion engine. An engine works by the same rules under a communist government as it does in a free-market democracy.  It’s just that in a...

11. What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...o so) get left behind and shut down. Branson has claimed the very principles of subversion promoted by arch-Communist Guevara in the pursuit of globalisation and capitalism.  It was Guevara who ...