Artículo de la Semana - 23 de junio THE FUTURE OF ENERGY Jun 19th 2008 Artículo de la Semana - 9 de junio June 2, 2008 I do not want to work in a third world "sweatshop." If you are reading this on a computer, chances are you don't either. Sweatshops have deplorable working conditions and extremely low pay—compared to the alternative employment available to me and probably you. That is why we choose not to work in sweatshops. All too often the fact that we have better alternatives leads first world activists to conclude that there must be better alternatives for third world workers too. Artículo de la Semana - 02 de junio April 7, 2008 Artículo de la Semana - 19 de mayo Acerca del arroz y las Leyes del Grano Como todo el mundo sabe, los precios de los alimentos han subido dramáticamente en los últimos años. Los precios del arroz han contribuido considerablemente al alza—han aumentado más que el doble desde principios de este año. Una vez dicho eso, los mercados futuros de arroz, los cuales de hecho son fragmentados y de pequeño margen, indican que no hay una escasez severa de arroz. Artículo de la Semana - 12 de mayo Paul Krugman writes in the New York Times, April 7 that there is a world food shortage, accompanied by skyrocketing prices. Because of this, poor people in Africa and other places are starving. He suggests that this has come about mostly for these reasons: Artículo de la Semana - 05 de mayo Entrevista Economista opina que intervención del Estado podría crear más alzas
The power and the glory
From The Economist print edition
EVERYONE loves a booming market, and most booms happen on the back of technological change. The world’s venture capitalists, having fed on the computing boom of the 1980s, the internet boom of the 1990s and the biotech and nanotech boomlets of the early 2000s, are now looking around for the next one. They think they have found it: energy. 
In Defense of "Sweatshops"
by Benjamin Powell*
Oil Prices
by Robert P. Murphy*
n March 3, oil prices surpassed the inflation-adjusted record set back in 1980 during the Iranian hostage crisis. Since then, they have set all-time highs—over $111 per barrel as of this writing. These sky-high prices, as well as the "unconscionable" profits earned by the oil companies, have led to predictable calls for government to hike taxes on Big Oil and to subsidize alternative energy sources. Only wise politicians, we are told, can steer the myopic market away from its dependence on foreign fossil fuels.
Steve H. Hanke es profesor de economía aplicada en la Universidad Johns Hopkins y Senior Fellow del Cato Institute.
Are We Running Out of Food?
James Gwartney: “Crisis de precios tiene soluciones de mercado”
La alerta mundial y nacional desatada por el incremento en muchos productos, como granos, bienes de la canasta básica y servicios como el transporte o la electricidad pueden enfrentarse de una manera diferente a la usual intervención gubernamental, al valerse del libre comercio y del fomento a la empresarialidad.
Artículo de la Semana - 28 de abril
Economic View
Freer Trade Could Fill the World’s Rice Bowl
By TYLER COWEN
Published: April 27, 2008
RISING food prices mean hunger for millions and also political unrest, as has already been seen in Haiti, Egypt and Ivory Coast. Yes, more expensive energy and bad weather are partly at fault, but the real question is why adjustment hasn’t been easier. A big problem is that the world doesn’t have enough trade in foodstuffs.
Artículo de la semana 21 de abril
Inflation and Price Control
Daily Article | by Ludwig von Mises
1. The Futility of Price Control
Under socialism production is entirely directed by the orders of the central board of production management. The whole nation is an "industrial army" (a term used by Karl Marx in the Communist Manifesto) and each citizen is bound to obey his superior's orders. Everybody has to contribute his share to the execution of the overall plan adopted by the Government.
Artículo de la Semana 14 de abril
11 de marzo de 2008
¿De dónde viene la inflación latinoamericana?
por Juan Carlos Hidalgo es Coordinador para Proyectos de América Latina del Cato Institute.La inflación nuevamente está causando dolores de cabeza en América Latina. En el 2007, el Índice de Precios al Consumidor (IPC) aumentó en todas menos dos economías.
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Artículo de la Semana 7 de abril
May 1996, Vol 46, No. 5
I, Pencil
By Leonard E. Read
“I, Pencil,” his most famous essay, was first published in the December 1958 issue of The Freeman.
I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.*
* My official name is “Mongol 482.” My many ingredients are assembled, fabricated, and finished by Eberhard Faber Pencil Company.
By Leonard E. Read
“I, Pencil,” his most famous essay, was first published in the December 1958 issue of The Freeman.
I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.*
Semana del 31 de marzo
Inflation
by David Ranson
Inflation is the loss in purchasing power of a currency unit such as the dollar, usually expressed as a general rise in the prices of goods and services.
Semana del 24 de marzo
Economics and the rule of law
Order in the jungle
Mar 13th 2008
From The Economist print editionThe rule of law has become a big idea in economics. But it has had its difficulties - Read more (lea más)
