Business
License-Quota-Raid Raj: Economic Warfare against Rickshaw Owners and Pullers
IPN Opinion article
Madhu Kishwar describes tyranny in Delhi, India, against the poor: "The situation I have just described does not represent any futuristic nightmare. It is the daily life experience of [thousands] of citizens in our capital city ó a situation legitimised by none other than the Supreme Court of India. The reason no one has taken any note of it is that the victims are one of the poorest and marginalised groups of our society ó the pullers and owners of cycle rickshaws in Delhi."
Anti-trade Riots are Result of Coalition between Protectionists and Power-mongers
IPN Opinion article
Environmental and consumer activists claim that trade harms the environment and reduces consumer choice. Huh? Where have these people been for the past fifty years? The idea that trade reduces consumer choice is simply daft, ranking alongside the communist dictum \'freedom through planning\' as one of the twentieth century\'s greatest fallacies. As we know from Friedrich Hayek and from the bitter experience of billions, central planning is the road to serfdom, not freedom. Likewise, a restriction on free and voluntary trade between individuals is by definition a restriction on choice. As regards the claim that trade damages the environment, evidence from across the world shows precisely the opposite. Trade results in improved allocation of resources, thereby benefiting the environment.
Anti-trade Riots are Result of Coalition between Protectionists and Power-mongers
IPN Opinion article
Environmental and consumer activists claim that trade harms the environment and reduces consumer choice. Huh? Where have these people been for the past fifty years? The idea that trade reduces consumer choice is simply daft, ranking alongside the communist dictum 'freedom through planning' as one of the twentieth century's greatest fallacies. As we know from Friedrich Hayek and from the bitter experience of billions, central planning is the road to serfdom, not freedom. Likewise, a restriction on free and voluntary trade between individuals is by definition a restriction on choice. As regards the claim that trade damages the environment, evidence from across the world shows precisely the opposite. Trade results in improved allocation of resources, thereby benefiting the environment.
