Ferghane Azihari

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Why Is the French Government Running Off Foreign Investors?

05/26/2021 Mises Wire Ferghane Azihari

Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The American economist Henry George once said protectionism is the way to inflict on ourselves in peacetime what our enemies inflict on us in...

Materialism Fails to Explain the West’s Conflict with Islam

12/31/2020 Mises Wire Ferghane Azihari

In 1905, sociologist Max Weber posited that the economic inequalities between Germany’s Protestants and Catholics arose from a fundamental difference in values. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit...

Hunter-Gatherers Ravaged the Environment. Industrialization Saved It.

01/01/2020 Mises Wire Ferghane Azihari

In 1972, Stone Age Economics, by anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, appeared. It came out in France in 1976 under the title Stone Age, Age of Plenty. The aim of the author is to deconstruct what he...

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Why Is the French Government Running Off Foreign Investors?

06/03/2021 Ferghane Azihari

Most people understand that it's a good thing when others invest money and capital in your community. But when Canadian investors offered to pour money into France as part of a deal to buy a French company, the regime said no thanks.

In Africa, Poverty Grows Because of the Elites’ Anti-Capitalism

06/04/2019 Ferghane Azihari

Both ideological anti-capitalism and economic factors contribute to the way Africa lags the rest of the world in the conquest of poverty.

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