Day: September 5, 2013

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Feature Article: South Africa at the Crossroads

An unemployment rate of over 35%, if you include people who have given up looking for work, an economic growth rate of 0.9% in the first quarter of 2013, a dismally failing public health sector, a public education sector that is qualitatively and quantitatively on the decline, rampant corruption on

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Seven simple rules – a libertarian hierarchy of needs

(This policy bulletin is extracted from the Briefing Paper written by Dr Jim Harris, Council Member of the Free Market Foundation.)

Psychological stepped models such as Maslow’s hierarchy (physiological, safety, social, esteem, self-actualisation) of human needs can be attractively simple and clear. Contractarian models of behaviour are not so readily or

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