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21 Oct 09

U.S. Multilateral Engagement: Benefits to American Citizens

  • Aviation Safety
  • Founded in 1947 under the Chicago Convention, ICAO is dedicated to safe, secure, and sustainable development of civil aviation through cooperation among its 190 Member States, including the United States.
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05 Oct 09

Matthew Yglesias » Building Factories in Afghanistan

  • “A lot of people who join the Taliban are jobless, too. If you want to stop the fighting, don’t send us more troops; build us more factories.”
  • Of course we could build a bunch of factories, but that wouldn’t do any good unless the factories had customers.
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16 Mar 09

Eunomia » The Debate Is Over

  • Works to do what? For whom? Who benefits, and who pays? What are the consequences? Free traders don’t care to answer any of these questions, or at least the people who have learned to mouth free trader lines don’t.
  • Economists who bother to answer them make it very clear that these policies are geared toward consumers and an economy built around consumption, and the American firms it primarily benefits are exporters of raw materials and sellers of imported junk.
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