by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union—like public housing in the United States—look decrepit within a year or two of their construction, why...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
Wherever possible, the proposal and development of infrastructure should be left to the market. Roads should be laid and bridges built by private consortiums that issue bonds and repay them by collecting tolls. Sewer systems should be built by the same developer who...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Environment
It is not pleasant to have to argue against a superstition which is held most strongly by men and women who are often regarded as the best in our society, and against a belief that has become almost the new religion of our time (and in which many of the ministers of...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Environment
It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means which have not been revealed, as if that would solve all our problems. Indeed, some of the Third World’s primitive farming methods created the deserts and...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Environment
There is a way of killing worse than that of the sword; … To prohibit from being born is to kill; those governments are in the highest degree guilty of blood, which by taking from men the means of living, bring some to perish through want, drive others out of...
