Recently added articles from Journal of Private Enterprise:
Income tax rates from 1913 to 2006.
Sep 22, 2009; ... "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." --Benjamin Franklin (1789) Although almost everyone believes taxes are inevitable, many people miss the fact that the amount of taxes paid and collected has varied widely over time. Within the past 100 ...
Can't buy me growth: on foreign aid and economic change.
Sep 22, 2009; ... I don't care too much for money, for money can't buy me love. The Beatles, "Can't Buy Me Love" "Can Foreign Aid Buy Growth?" William Easterly, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2003) I. Introduction Does persistent poverty in the developing world express ...
Can the West help the rest? A review essay of Sachs' The End of Poverty and Easterly's The White Man's Burden.
Sep 22, 2009; ... I. Introduction Most of the world was poor two hundred and fifty years ago. Moreover, the difference between the richest and the poorest was quite small. Since then, however, much of the world has climbed out of poverty by embracing property rights and enforcing contracts ....
Queuing, conflict, and violence.
Sep 22, 2009; ... I. Introduction As every student in an economics principles class learns, or should learn, any time the price of a good is kept below the market-clearing price, for whatever reason, some form of non-price rationing comes into play. Commonly, this rationing involves queuing. As ...
U.S. airline antitrust policy and empty core disequilibrium.
Sep 22, 2009; ... I. Introduction The dismal financial performance of the U.S. "legacy" airlines, the major hub and spoke network carriers, is extraordinary. Even before all the bankruptcies from the problems of terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and subsequent surging fuel costs, returns ...