Marc Abela

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09/08/2014 Free Market Marc Abela

The Free Market 31, no. 11 (November 2013) Marc Abela talks with us about the state of Austrian economics and the freedom philosophy in Japan. Abela, a Canadian by birth, has lived in Japan for almost...

Marc Abela: Abenomics and Japan’s Narrowing Horizons

08/15/2014 Jeff Deist Marc Abela

Jeff Deist and Marc Abela discuss the Bank of Japan's failed 25 year program of monetary stimulus, and the impossibility of "Abenomics".

Austrian Economics and Interventionism in Japan

01/03/2014 Mises Daily Marc Abela

Japan suffers the universal results of high taxation and the wide variety of social problems that follow. No longer is one income enough to make ends meet. Government regulations make it difficult for new industries to compete against the established giants and most industries behave like state-owned enterprises.

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