Correlating Freedom and Successful Capitalism: Dahl’s Framework For Prosperity

At Reason:
What is productivity? Simply getting more output from the same or less input. Dahl showed in his talk the institutional context in which productivity improvement flourishes. His findings will gladden the heart of any libertarian, and anyone else who wants a prosperous future for the billions of people on this planet who are mired [...]

Book Notes: The Entrepreneurial Imperative by Carl J. Schramm

The book The Entrepreneurial Imperative by Carl J. Schramm is subtitled “How America’s Economic Miracle Will Reshape the World and Change Your Life”.
This is not a book on entrepreneurship, but rather a book on why entrepreneurship (practice of, promotion of, as foreign policy) is important to the a public policy for future USA.
Right from [...]

Nobel Prize Winner Phelps on “Dynamic Capitalism”

Edmund Phelps writes in the opinion Journal on “Dynamic Capitalism:
There are two economic systems in
the West. Several nations–including the U.S., Canada and the
U.K.–have a private-ownership system marked by great openness to the
implementation of new commercial ideas coming from entrepreneurs, and
by a pluralism of views among the financiers who select the ideas to
nurture by providing the [...]

A Bold Choice for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize

Just when I want to dismiss the prize and their recipients out of hand, the committeee goes and does this:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006, divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. [...]

Rainy Saturday Links

The Importance of Birth Order Debunked at Econlog
The Shana Hiatt Blooper Reel
Althouse: A fantasy scenario of trying Bin Laden A bullet to the head by the capturing American Infantryman works for me.
Is the Thai Coup…a prelude to Islamization of Thailand?
IEEE Spectrum Special Report: Unlocking the Terrorist Mind
Peace Through Commerce at the FlowProject
Muslim Brotherhood controls [...]

Wednesday Night Links

Shining City has: Fetal Shark Attacks
Arnold Kling’s Suggested Ed Reform
TV Squad investigators are all over the Lost video clues
ISC Incident Handler on Information Security Standards
Islam Is The Problem?
Alt-History links
On the War: Reasons for Optimism (5 part series) by guest Owen Johnson at Swinkwrapped. I have read them; FuturePurpleSlog needs to write a post on [...]

Our Lucky Constitution and Entrepreneurialism

I was reading this at an Althouse post:
The writer makes a connection between our old Constitution and our willingness to fight wars. Do you see that connection?
Some thoughts offhand:

Could the same things that lead to stable constitutional rule set lead to a greater willingness to be bold?
Is war-fighting willingness to change and shape the [...]

Entrepreneurial Peace Theory Thoughts

Just some thoughts I scribbled into a notebook over the weekend on Entrepreneurial Peace Theory (because Democratic Peace Theory and PNM Theory’s Gloabilization = Building Connections = Peace seem to be incomplete to me):

It is not capitalism or business or globalization that is the key
It is the exercise of entrepreneurial capital and creative destruction…the optimizing [...]

Freedom Spreading (aka Gap Shrinking) via the Promotion of Entrepreneurial Capitalism

Via the PSD Blog, Carl Schramm writes in USA Today, starting with:
Smith’s great revelation was that political freedom would most likely emerge and persist under conditions of economic freedom, what we now call capitalism. Our democratic system as defined in our Constitution incorporated respect for this economic system. Like Smith’s invisible hand in the market, [...]

Notes from Liberty Magazine: John Mackey and the Freedom Movement

From Liberty Magazine, John Mackay has an article entitled Winning the Battle for Freedom and Prosperity that I came across while killing time on Monday. It is both a first person journey into capitalism and libertarianism of Mackay, and his thoughts on the direction the Freedom Movement (read Libertarianism) should take.
There where many interesting portions:
The [...]