Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Aug 24, 2008	Why we should listen to economists
Scot Adams makes the case . (yes, he's the guy who created Dilbert , but he majored in economics in college and nowadays runs a stellar blog ). Scott writes, If a weather expert tells you what the weather will be on a specific day next year, you can safely ignore him. If he tells...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Jun 27, 2008	Drew Carey on Free Trade
Drew Carey in another installment of his series at Reason.tv takes a swing at the U.S. protectionists' (Obama-types) fear mongering over NAFTA. Something that's rarely understood by protectionist all over the world is that the biggest source of "job losses" is technology, not...... [view]

Posted By:  ReillyY Posted On:  Jun 12, 2008	Beyond NAFTA: Free Trade with Colombia on the Horizon
NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, is a household acronym in Canada. However, many Canadians would probably be surprised to hear that we also have free trade agreements with a handful of countries outside North America. Agreements with Chile, Israel and Costa Rica have been in...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Mar 17, 2008	Greg Mankiw on Free Trade
Mankiw writing for the New York Times , NO issue divides economists and mere Muggles more than the debate over globalization and international trade. Where the high priests of the dismal science see opportunity through the magic of the market’s invisible hand, Joe Sixpack sees a threat to...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Feb 25, 2008	Unfair Trade
Adam Smith Institute has it's latest report Unfair Trade , Out today. From the ASI Blog : Fairtrade is a nice idea, and it is great that so many consumers want to help the poor in the developing world. But it is important that we ask whether Fairtrade really helps. After all, 'Fairtrade'...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Feb 22, 2008	“The Cost of Free Trade”
Recently the Island carried an article with the same title where the writer (a Kath Noble) goes on to explain the implications of the I ndo-Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA) . Now, I have seen worse articles on trade and economics in the Sri Lankan press, but it’s precisely the more...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Feb 18, 2008	Why not Obama
Lots of people like Barack Obama. He’s now the frontrunner for the democratic nomination, and if he does get it, He’ll be hard to beat for McCain. He’s articulate, charismatic and black. This appeals to a lot of people, not just in the U.S. but it seems around the world and here in Sri...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Dec 27, 2007	SEZs for Sri Lanka?
I was in India when the Nandigram incidents took place, it was around March and I was traveling all over North India. At the centre of the disputew were land acquisitions meant for a Special Economic Zone(SEZ) , initiated by the West Bengal State Government (controlled by the Communist Party...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Jan 16, 2008	Get it right on free trade
Cafe Hayek points me to a nice op-ed on Free Trade on the NYTimes , Here's some relevant excerpts, I doubt there’s a human being on earth who hasn’t benefited from the opportunity to trade freely with his neighbors. Imagine what your life would be like if you had to grow your own food,...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Jan 16, 2008	Cultural Globalization
Tyler Cowen has an interesting piece on the topic over at Mint . The article pretty much echoes what Cris Lingle had to say at a forum I was involved in late last year. The backlash against cultural globalization is inevitable and understandable. A group of people in every society have...... [view]

Posted By:  deane034 Posted On:  Jan 17, 2008	How much would the Nano cost us?
That's the car, not the iPod. For the uninitiated, the Indian motor company Tata recently unveiled the "Nano" the world's cheapest car priced at a low-low figure of Rs.100,000 (INR). (That works out to about $2,500 and Rs.275,000 LKR). This is great news of course both for Tata and the...... [view]