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Feature Article Archives Go shopping for criminals "Free Market Fundamentalists" - who are they? ‘Free’ schooling is anything but free “Burgernomics” for South Africans South Africans must not become a nation of rent seekers South Africa's 2005 Tax Freedom Day - 1 May - the worst ever! A free society demands a government of laws A neutral tax structure shows respect for the consumer A not-to-be-missed BEE opportunity in the public health sector A real electricity market will rapidly end blackouts A tale of two cities: enslaved Prague and free Prague A True Democracy gives People the Power Abandon apartheid’s counter-productive forex controls Abolish exchange controls now About those capitalist Scandinavians... Achieving the elusive 6 per cent growth rate Africa needs healthy trade Africa’s citizens pay a heavy price for donor aid Africa’s poor nations need trade – not aid African Think Tanks stretch out their hands to the people of Zimbabwe Africans hold the key to their own prosperity AIDS Drugs: No Compromise on Safety and Quality Allowing the labour market to function An alternative approach to righting past wrongs Another ‘unforeseen’ payout to SAA? Anton Rupert: Entrepreneur Extraordinaire Are we heading for a water crisis? Aspects of a peacetime occupation Asset forfeiture: justice is not served by laws that create perverse incentives At 50, new life for Castro's Cuba? Attracting Pharmaceutical Investment to South Africa Battle of the NGOs Beware of the precautionary principle Beware the bitter pill that may destroy all other pills Beware the new princes - bureaucrats armed with new legislation Bigots, boycotts and business Biotechnology: How to set African women free Bringing SAA to market? Bureaucracy burdens SA’s private health care Can a country change its spots or learn new tricks? Can a 'developmental state' grow and prosper? Can a harmless chap get a fair trial around here? Can Ireland's recent prosperity-path enliven the South African economy? Can the SADC Free Trade Area create Growth, Development and Wealth? Cancun failure: the poor will pay the highest price Capping doctors’ fees will cause a headache Certificates of need are a recipe for chaos Chocolate was a consequence of free trade Civil Society Report on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Health Climate Alarmism hurts the poor Climate alarmists will not help Africa Climate change and disease -the issue is wealth not warming Coffee and a Lesson in Economics Commentary on the Medium Term Budget Policy Speech Common currencies and trade Communal Land Rights Act needs to be revised Competition Commission sides with pharmaceutical wholesalers against consumers Competition law: an Alice in Wonderland fantasy Completing the destruction of South Africa’s traditional communities? Compliance costs destroy potential jobs Conserving wildlife in Namibia Constitutional Court clips the wings of the Assets Forfeiture Unit Co-operation and voluntary exchange build winning nations Costing the NHI Costs reduce formal jobs and push people into the informal sector Could a South African idea resolve France’s labour impasse? Court ruling evicts property rights Crime, unemployment and economic growth Dangerous delusion: why plans to spend billions on drugs for Africa could backfire Dawn of a new education age Defined and secure property rights will reduce conflict in Africa Defuse the ticking unemployment bomb before it explodes Depopulation and longevity are causing headaches for welfare states Deregulate fuel in the interests of consumers Derek Hanekom receives the 2002 Free Market Award Developing countries get richer by adopting free trade policies Developing countries need trade, not aid Digital divide widens Direct democracy has a role to play in Africa Does rescuing insolvent companies do more harm than good? Does South Africa have many unconstitutional provisions on its statute books? Don’t listen to the advocates of global apartheid Don't blame the babies Downsizing government can boost development funds Economic calculation is not possible in a socialist world Economic Freedom is never assured: Zambians should defend theirs Economic freedom works Economic nationalism makes no sense – never has and never will Education won't necessarily help development Empowerment targets are hazardous to economic health Ending poverty Entrepreneurs all, we need freedom of action Entrepreneurs all, we need freedom of action Entrepreneurs all, we need freedom of action Environmentalists and the third world Equality, constitutionality and the rule of law Everyone profits from pursuing their enlightened self-interest Excessive legislation and the culture of crime Fast-tracking social security Feeding the Food Crisis, Securing Insecurity Fixing famine in Africa FMF index reflects declining trend Free Farmers to Fix Famine Free Market Foundation Chairman deplores granting of unfettered discretion to ministers and officials Free Market Foundation receives Templeton Freedom Award Free Market Foundation wins Templeton Freedom Award Free market principles are derived from experience – not ideology Free trade is good for consumers and economic growth Free trade is preferable to preferential trade Freedom is good for the environment From 2008 Government Interventions to 2009 Market Corrections GEAR and NEPAD are the proper antidotes to apartheid over-regulation Getting South Africa’s economy going Ghana and South Africa – can they become the “economic miracles” of Africa? Give back to the people their common law rights Give back to the unemployed their right to work Give back to the unemployed their right to work and self-respect – right now! Give Hope to SA’s Unemployed Give students tax-breaks for financing their own university studies Give the poor unemployed a break Globalisation is all about choice Globalisation is most popular in poor countries Globalisation is old hat Good times could easily be had by all – the devil is in the politics Government can reduce medicine prices overnight Government of the people, by the people, for the people Government should not be in business Government should not fix medicine prices Government would achieve so much more by doing less Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed Governments, free markets, and the financial crisis Governments: Beware the Errors of the 1930’s Great Depression Greater economic freedom can reduce poverty in Africa Greater labour market flexibility will reduce unemployment Green U-turns are a sign of desperation Green U-turns are a sign of desperation Greenpeace policies cause deaths in Africa Growth, economic freedom and a contented society Hard-won liberty needs persistent and resolute defence Has the stunning economic progress of the last century come at a price? Health Charter perpetuates fallacies Heaven on earth is not the lot of humanity Heresy and the Green Inquisition Hiding the unemployed who have given up searching for jobs High compliance costs are a deterrent to hiring labour High economic growth is a matter of choice not chance or destiny High growth is the only way to make the poor richer High inflation, same solution HIV-AIDS: Poverty Disease? Hope for the unemployed – at last! *How can wrong ideas feel* so right and right ideas so wrong? How much behaviour control do we want? How rosy are our growth prospects? How South Africa can lead the world out of the global financial crisis How to cause inflation and get away with it How to stop hyperinflation Human rights are costly Ideas for addressing poverty that are better than BIG Idiot’s Guide to Nationalisation If you love liberty, thank Robert Mugabe Ills of French health system: a lesson on reining in costs Immigrants welcome! Imposing royalties on mining companies compounds an earlier injustice Incentives matter! Income Gap Nonsense Income inequalities Income inequality and unemployment in South Africa Index the rand to stabilise its international purchasing power India's economy in overdrive - South Africa's could grow as fast Inflation and rand weakness are caused by excessive money creation Insurance Commission Regulation: Inappropriate and Undesirable Is it possible to eliminate malaria in South Africa? Is Over-Population the Cause of Hunger in Africa? Is reintroducing conscription good for the country? Is SA headed for a “double dip” recession? Is South Africa headed for a battle between the twin evils? Is South Africa over-regulated? Is the Rule of Law under siege in South Africa? Is there no compassion for the unemployed? It’s all a matter of incentives It’s time for South Africa to stop being a non-developing country Job creation, the “bullet” train, and other urban myths Jobless don’t know why they can’t get jobs Jobs creation and government policy Jowater’s trials and tribulations Keep South Africa’s e-commerce simple, effective, and lightly regulated Kenya’s election crisis exposes Africa’s flawed ‘democracy’ Kombi taxis – stepchildren of the SA passenger transport industry Labour Force Survey Data is Imperative Labour laws deny freedom of choice Legal tender and forex laws hamper trade Legislating medical aid out of the consumer’s hands Let beneficiaries choose their own welfare Let government go shopping for criminals Let the people vote! Let’s give South Africa a Tiger Woods economy Let’s hope the Polokwane revolution reverses course sharpish Let's all try hard to look on the regulatory bright side Liberate trade and education to increase economic growth Liberty is indivisible Life isn’t perfect but conditions are improving Like telecommunications, electricity isn't a natural monopoly Listening to the will of the people Live Like a King Local isn’t always what the consumer wants Low tax-spend will uplift the poor better than welfare, infrastructure or training Magisterial new FMF book offers a better hope Make South Africa a tax haven to promote economic growth Making entrepreneurship work for South Africa Malaria - SADC gets it right while the UN gets it wrong Malaria kills, saps energies and harms Africa’s economies Many births not necessarily bad Marx got it backwards Mass transit by express bus systems is better than the Gautrain option Masterbond and Enron demonstrate market success, not market failure Mauritian reform should alert SA government Mauritius: up against a wall of competition Mauritius: where they don’t kill the geese that lay the golden eggs Maybe we can smile Medicine price controls and the Constitutional Court decision Michael O’Dowd: A Tribute to a Great Man Milton Friedman: liberty's great economics teacher Misconceptions regarding capitalism Money central banking and monetary policy More effective ways of aiding Africa’s people Mozambique forgets its past and faces a bright future Mr President, please give gift certificates to the unemployed this Christmas Must legislatures legislate? National health insurance plan unworkable Nationalisation: the Public Always Loses New Year’s Wish for South Africa New Zealand Prime Minister aims for competitive advantage No Farming, No Jobs! - 1913 Land Act and 2008 labour laws No other Human Right is as important as individual liberty Now lets scotch the planned nationalisation of minerals Nuclear power for SA Obamacare’s hidden costs are rapidly surfacing Our own hot pursuit of bad habits promotes real crime Ownership – the key to improving public health care Peace on earth and goodwill towards all profit-makers Perpetuating the 16-84 health care fallacy Political and Economic Freedoms Together Spawn Humanity’s Miracles Poor nations need ideological revolutions – not aid President Thabo Mbeki should veto the Minerals Bill: it is a disaster for South Africa, Nepad and Africa Press freedom under threat Price controls and VAT reduce access to medicines Price controls reduce the availability of medicines Private firms are the creators of wealth and engines of growth Private property: imperative for growth Private versus Socialised Health Care Privatise SA’s tertiary medical education facilities Privatise SAA to stop needlessly squandering scarce resources Privatise state-owned minerals instead of trying to nationalise privately owned minerals Privatised water would be better managed Profit is the source of all prosperity Property Rights: A Key to Development Proposal to establish a state-run pharmaceutical manufacturer Proposed confiscation of South Africa’s privately owned mineral rights Prosperity is a matter of choice, not chance Prosperity is a matter of choice, not chance Protected state monopolies and regulation are strangling our economy Providing high quality health-care to all South Africans Prudent Fiscal and Monetary Policies will get SA through the Current Crisis Public enterprises, guided by “mean-wellers”, are prone to disaster Put the Poor First Quotas for Chinese imports will take the clothing off the backs of the poor Quotas on Chinese imports of textiles and clothing Racism is not the major problem in the world today Rape and compensation Real Federalism Protects Citizens against Coercion Reject Force: Adopt a Voluntary Exchange Ethos Releasing the positive energies of all South Africans Remove institutional constraints on township property markets Restructuring South Africa’s Electric Power System Rewarding corrupt officials does not help the poor SA shares 60th place with Lesotho in world economic freedom rankings SA’s Constitutional Safeguards are in Tatters SA’s unemployment battle continues SADC ministers prepare to fight a killer Schooling in South Africa needs a serious rethink Schooling: Trapped in a web of special interests Secure property rights are the key to economic growth Seeds of Hope from the Private Sector Seedy politics Seen and unseen consequences of policy decisions Set the children free Shed Eskom’s monopoly to solve the electricity crisis Should government or the courts manage South Africa’s budget? Should SA be totally dependent for electricity on a single government utility? Silly season heats up Singapore shuns state-dominated health care Sir Ketumile Masire Former President of Botswana accepts the Free Market Award – 4 April 2001 Sir Ketumile Masire of Botswana receives Free Market Award Skewed biotech ethics Skilled immigrants add economic growth and jobs Small government and high economic growth go hand in hand Small government brings fast growth Some cutting-edge technologies for achieving poverty Some Third World countries are forging ahead of others South Africa and its declining level of economic freedom South Africa appears to be heading seriously in the wrong direction South Africa improves economic freedom but falls to 44th in world ranking South Africa is 46th out of 123 countries on economic freedom ranking South Africa is being held to an undistinguished level of economic freedom South Africa is buckling under excessive regulation South Africa is ranked 42nd out of 123 countries on economic freedom index South Africa is ranked 47th out of 123 countries on economic freedom index South Africa leads the way in fight against malaria South Africa moves up to 38th on the world economic freedom rankings South Africa moves up to 38th on the world economic freedom rankings South Africa needs freedom, not socialism South Africa needs more demanding customers South Africa needs sound money without exchange controls South Africa should adopt a Flat Tax South Africa should adopt a Flat Tax South Africa should not convert its laws into instruments of plunder South Africa should strive for greater economic freedom South Africa¡¦s job security laws are inappropriate for a developing country South Africa’s chronic shortage of health care professionals South Africa’s Information Dirt-Road South Africa’s leap from information dirt road to super highway South Africa’s poverty and unemployment battle South Africa’s Tax Freedom Day falls on 20 April this year South Africa’s tax laws inconsistent with the rule of law South African life assurance companies smothered in legislation South Africans must not become a nation of rent seekers South Africa's 2003 tax freedom day - 22 April South Africa's 2005 tax freedom day – 1 May – the worst ever! South Africa's labour market regulation - too much worker-bias Staring plunder squarely in the face Statist NGOs wreak havoc in Africa Stepping carefully towards health reform Strategies for achieving poverty Strengthening strategic ties with China Strengthening weak schools Strikes by the employed will not help the unemployed Tax Freedom Day falls on April 22 this year Tax Freedom Day is 26 April this year - the worst ever! Tear down the deadly trade barriers Technologies converge in the internet Testing HIV and our credulity The "mystery" of the plummeting rand The “Mystery” of the Rocketing Rand The Africa I Would Like to See The BP Oill Disaster The Broken Window The consequences of state welfare: lessons from the Swedish experience The continued economic burden of SAA The danger of executive power grabs in times of crisis The fate of the rand The free market is not to blame The Good and Bad News at the WHA The Government-Created Subprime Crisis The Importance of Intellectual Property Rights The Injustice of Trade Justice The Irresistible Sirens’ Song of Inflation The key to SA’s chronic and persistently high rates of unemployment The legacy of a great economist – Peter Bauer 1915 – 2002 The Miracle of Poverty The money that government is spending comes from you The nature, causes and outcomes of strike action in SA The onrushing train of minerals nationalisation is almost upon us The plastic bag ban is one for the bin The poor do get richer – in a free economic environment! The poor pay the highest price for the plastic bag regulation The proposed cure for the world’s health problems is worse than the disease The real digital divide The right to work and increasing the demand for labour The road to serfdom: how Africa is sliding back to servitude The role of labour unions in post-apartheid SA The shady climate salesmen The Significance of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – an African Perspective The strange, strange world of competition law The tax conundrum – governments collect more tax at lower rates The true developmental state is founded on liberty The U.N.'s latest study has told us to starve the poor The ubiquitous power of the cell phone The Zimbabwean healthcare crisis There is probably nothing to gain and much to lose from extra tax on mining Third World countries have shown massive progress Time to privatise SAA To be, or not to be ... exploited – that is the question To be, or not to be ... exploited – that is the question To BEE or not to BEE discriminatory? To deliberately weaken the rand is a recipe for disaster To stimulate growth there is simply no alternative to security of persons and property! To stimulate growth there is simply no alternative to security of persons and property! Towards an enlightened liquor policy Towards quality healthcare for all Trade and Labour Regulations: The Twin Evils Trade is good for your health, especially if you are poor Trading in water will lead to its efficient use and most equitable allocation Transfer land from the state to the people now Tribute to the late Michael Magcaleka Jwambi Understanding How Scarce Resources Are Utilised for the Benefit of Man Unemployment and the rights of workers Unfortunately the fundamentals for growth are not in place Value is not in objects but in people’s minds VAT and import duties on medicines are inhumane Vioxx: More regulation would be medical malpractice Voluntary learning is crucial to educational success Wage subsidies are a well-meant but ineffective tool for reducing unemployment Wasteful Regulation Water and markets – an essential cocktail Water for African Cities We need much more international trade We should all think more like consumers Weatherproofing African economies against climate change What can be done about rising food prices? What freedom really means What is wealth? What Michael O’Dowd said about the SA economy 10 years ago What might a Market World demand of emerging nations? What the hospital pricing furore and electricity blackouts have in common What we really need is more unsustainable exploitation When government stimulates economic activity it can turn sheep into chickens When is a Gift not a Gift? When will government officials recognise that the Constitution protects property rights? Where have all the taxes gone? Gone to wages, every one! Where the rich get richer and the poor get richer faster Which way to greater prosperity? Who are Africa's saviours? Who will be the custodian of our custodians? Who will stop government endlessly pushing up unemployment? Why ‘Decent Jobs’ become ‘No Jobs’ for the unemployed Why causing unemployment is politically popular Why is the rand falling now? Why keep children in chains? Why not be the prettiest developing country in the world? Why not copy the Chinese, who took only 200 years to learn from Adam Smith? Will SA consumers benefit from the SA-China trade agreement? Windfall profits tax: an act of criminal recklessness Wish we were celebrating Private Water Week! Without freedom we have nothing Women are better off in globalised countries World economic inequality and globalisation World hunger declines when peace and sound economics prevail World Malaria Day - Just Another PR Swat at Malaria? Young people need choice in education Zimbabweans desperately need personal and economic freedom**


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