In Brazil, economic liberals (in the British, free-market sense, not the socialistic American one) are as scarce as snowflakes. Government revenue as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) has risen steadily in the past decade, and is now closer to the level in rich European countries than that
Social cohesion is one of those values all decent Europeans can sign up to: less social conflict and less of the inequality that America and Britain put up with. What all European governments must grasp, though, is that many of the policies espoused in the name of social cohesion
Protecting the environment in the 21st century will require the adoption of sophisticated agricultural technologies including biotechnology and genetically modified crops, according to a study by the Royal Society, England’s most prestigious scientific body.
That’s welcome news for America’s farmers and consumers. For most of the last two
President Obama recently announced there would be $1.2 billion in government funding for a high-speed rail line between Tampa and Orlando, part of $8 billion in federal money being doled out for various passenger rail projects around the country. He said such projects could be an “economic engine.”
In The Odyssey, Homer’s second epic poem of the Trojan War (The Iliad was the first), Greek hero Odysseus, sacker of Troy, must endure many challenges before he can return to his homeland. Some challenges were new and unexpected, but, as an experienced sailor, Odysseus was aware of the terrible
In earlier generations marriage allowed women to achieve economic security, now, it appears, men are more likely to benefit, according to a Pew Research Center study.
The root cause is the spread of women’s higher education, say the researchers:
For the first time in American history there are more
