whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
(Analysis/Analysis)

... It remains a symptom. Abandoning charity does not mean embracing mature free-market policies When the Soviet Union collapsed Boris Yeltsin, then Russia's president, attempted to launch the ex-...

2. Atlas Shrugged at 50
(Analysis/Analysis)

...f the majority. Did Rand stop the slide? Or did she merely point out, 50 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, that any society that kills production has a finite bank account that will event...

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

...f the USSR, Capitalists celebrated. As the wall fell, as the unhealthy, drably dressed, survivors of the Soviet States emerged, driving clunky Communist-designed vehicles, in their lumpy Communist-de...

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

...etter for everyone. Limiting that market will leave Europe, and its fellow travellers, behaving like the Soviet Union; punishing people for expressing their ideas and - ultimately - worse off once th...

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

...e in consumer action.  If you didn’t like the Trabant you had to take issue with a police-run, Soviet-era, state. Social development has been a lot like a centralised Soviet-run economy.&n...