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Garreth Bloor is President of the Canada-Africa Chamber of Business. He served as a vice president of the IRR, the oldest classical liberal think tank in South Africa and is a former executive politician in the country. He is also the founder of a venture capital firm. Bloor currently resides in Toronto.

January 24, 2019|"The Economic Conditions of Interstate Federalism", balance of power, Edwin van de Haar, F.A. Hayek, Lionel Robbins, Nation-State, The Virtue of Nationalism, Totalitarianism, Yoram Hazony

Was Hayek a One-Worlder?

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Friedrich Hayek in Gothenburg, Sweden 1981 (Roger Tillberg / Alamy Stock Photo).

The nation remains the basic unit of international society in Hayek’s view.

November 5, 2018|Donald Trump, free trade, Immigration, Populism, Protectionism, Right Here Right Now, Stephen Harper, USMCA

Manifesto of a Classical Liberal-slash-Populist

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Former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper

To respond to the legitimate grievances of populists, argues Stephen Harper, conservatives have to snap out of their free market dogmatism.

September 25, 2018|Austrian Economics, Eric Voegelin, F.A. Hayek, George Gilder, Gnosis, Ludwig von Mises

Understanding Homo Economicus in Deeper Terms

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Writer and economist George Gilder

What the state-oriented economists and the market-oriented economists might both be underestimating: ideas, attitudes, moral codes, and mental disciplines.

July 18, 2018|entrepreneurship, Free Markets, Israel Kirzner, Protectionism, subsidiarity, Subsidies

What Local Governments Need to Learn to Nurture Local Prosperity

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(image contributed to shutterstock.com by Cary Kalscheuer)

Research tells us that local government regularly infringes the rule of law even when acting in the name of decentralization or federalism.

June 13, 2018|African National Congress, Cyril Ramaphosa, Jacob Zuma, South Africa

Risks and Opportunities in South Africa’s Fluid Politics

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City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa (Schnepf Design/Shutterstock.com).

The shifting alliances of South Africa's politics offer significant dangers to private property, but may open space for liberal reforms.

May 22, 2018|Friedrich Hayek, James Buchanan, mass transit, mobility, Public Choice, urban planning, urban transit

Government Can’t Overcome Traffic: A Market Approach to Mobility

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Mass transit rail system in Singapore (Sam's Studio/Shutterstock.com).

We should take a page from James Buchanan and Friedrich Hayek, and use markets to foster mobility instead of relying on top-down plans for mass transit.

April 5, 2018|Benjamin Barber, Friedrich Hayek, local government, Mark Pennington, Rule of Law