by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Environment
The relationship between scientific research and policy towards the global environment was not just a technical matter. It went to the heart of what differentiated my approach from that of the socialists. For me, the economic progress, scientific advance and public...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution and capitalism, wage rates have risen steadily—as an inevitable economic consequence of rising capital accumulation, technological progress, and industrial expansion … It was the economic self-interest of employers that led...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
Capping wage increases, which governments resort to in times of high monetary inflation, does not control inflation. Monetary inflation is caused by the rapid expansion of the amount of money in circulation. Preventing people from protecting themselves from the...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
The property which every man has in his own labor; as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable … To hinder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper without injury to his neighbor...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Oct 12, 2015 | Business
Any attempts by the government to force businesses to employ those supposedly subject to discrimination is both patronizing and counterproductive—patronizing because it suggests that the group is incapable of obtaining a job on its own merits, or that their kind is so...
