Book Review: Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government – by Yaron Brook & Don Watkins
In today’s environment, where the Indian government seems to be bereft of good leaders and men who can
Book Review: Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government – by Yaron Brook & Don Watkins
In today’s environment, where the Indian government seems to be bereft of good leaders and men who can
Dr. BR Ambedkar: A Free Market Economist at Heart
“Ambedkar is my Father in Economics. He is true celebrated champion of the underprivileged. He deserves more than what he has achieved today. However he was highly controversial figure in his home country, though it was not the reality.
Top 5 Must-Reads on Free Markets
Free Market is a hypothetical market condition where manufacturers and service providers can export, import and offer services under no conditions and with zero taxes, subsidies and policies involved. Being a highly debatable topic; many economists along the years have opposed or stood by
5 Myths About Free Trade
Free trade is when governments stop discriminating between exports and imports and allow manufacturers and service providers to buy and sell products and services in an environment free of subsidies and duties. While economists around the world have been favoring this concept and
Prof. B.R. Shenoy: India’s Free Market Visionary
The birth of a nation represents sheer potential. Potential in terms of an unwritten future, that could go in any direction. The blank pages of history wait to be filled… with overlying goals, structure and the freedom to decide how to achieve the goals. When India became independent, it was faced with three economic models.
Frederic Bastiat – A Rebel Against Regulation
Nothing exposes the absurdity of government regulation better than Frederic Bastiat’s satiric article – The Candlemaker’s Petition. This classic describes a petition taken out by candle makers against what they term as an unfair competitor – the Sun itself!
UK Gambling Tax Laws Place Consumption over Location
The UK Gambling Commission estimates the UK remote gambling market at £2 billion per year. Since most of online gaming operations are based in tax havens such as Gibraltar, the current remote gambling duty, which is taxed at 15% of gross profits, witnesses most tax-based returns to the UK going into outside coffers.
The 5 Most Popular Casino Games
Casinos have always been places of glamour games. Be it the ruthless ransacking of the treasures of Europe’s ‘high rollers’ in the centuries gone by, or the chaos and brouhaha over a ‘big player’ finished, casinos have succeeded in keeping up their charm and allure for their lovers.
Free Markets and Liberty
Free markets of the modern world can be credited with inspiring economies towards redemption. And why not, when economists the world over testify it to be the best trade policy available. Instead of letting the authorities bar free resource use by autocratic taxation and stringent intervention in trade, deploying free trade can help solve many conundrums concerning trade and economy today.
Rakesh Wadhwa. Ever since, I was a school boy, I knew India was on the wrong path. Socialism was just not what we needed to get ahead. Government controlled our travel; government controlled our ability to buy and sell; and government controlled our freedom to move our money. My life has focused on the inherent rights people have. When I was in college, I never understood, what the governments meant by their "socialistic attitude". If people are free to buy, sell and move their capital themselves without any restrictions by state, then the welfare of people is inevitable & hence the countries they live in will become wealthy. The government has no right whatsoever, to point a finger at me or my business. I am not a revolutionary. I just want to light up my cigarette and not get nagged about it. I believe in non-interfering attitude to attain more. 
The Bastiat Award is a journalism award, given annually by the International Policy Network, London. Bastiat Prize entries are judged on intellectual content, the persuasiveness of the language used and the type of publication in which they appear. Rakesh Wadhwa won the 3rd prize (a cash award of $1,000 and a candlestick), in 2006.
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