Political philosophy
Economic Freedom 2007
Robert Lawson, co-author of the Fraser Institute's 2007 Economic Freedom of the World Report, speaks about how the index is a tool for measuring performance and for demanding specific policies for growth.
The road to serfdom -- how Africa is sliding back to servitude
IPN Opinion article
Africa must urgently move from engaging in reforms to please donors to reforms that will encourage entrepreneurship. Recent developments in Kenya and Africa in general demonstrate that people are suffering from the fatigue of excessive state manipulation. o≠ne regime after the another promise to make life for Africans better but in the long run they have all ended up taking away individual liberties in the name of public safety and or state security. Another distinguished author of \"The Law\" Frederic Bastiat recognized that government can help secure liberty, but it can also be the greatest single threat to liberty. Said Bastiat, \"See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits o≠ne citizen at the expense of another doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime\".
A Sinking Ship? Privatize Kenya's National Social Security Fund
IPN Opinion article
"The public pension system is a collectivist scheme that deprives individuals the freedom to organize their future. It is imperative to give the contributors the freedom to choose a retirement scheme that works best for them. Given that the poor tend to start work earlier in their lives and have a shorter life expectancy than the better offs, the public system is unfair to this category of people."
