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Prosperity and Capitalism After the Berlin Wall

Simple measures of economic improvements do not explain whether these locations have become more prosperous. Hence the Legatum Institute’s recently released 2009 Prosperity Index tells us far more of the story. The Index evaluates 104 nations — 90 ...

From ROGER BATE, The New Ledger,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University

How Prosperous Are We?

A shortcoming of the GDP measurement involves accounting for quality improvements where no change in price has occurred: BlackBerries or iPhones can do more and are vastly more useful than similarly priced phones from a decade ago. The most useful ...

From ROGER BATE, The American | American Enterprise Institute,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nicolas Sarkozy,  Wall Street Journal,  Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,  American Enterprise Institute,  Heritage Foundation

Elinor Ostrom and Climate Change

I used and cited Dr. Elinor Ostrom’s work quite a lot in my own PhD, using her myriad examples of how diverse property structures had evolved to deal with commons, including irrigation systems, which for many poor people in rural areas are often the ...

From ROGER BATE, The American | American Enterprise Institute,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Elinor Ostrom

Obama’s Nobel Prize: A View From Europe

So the President of the United States is to become a Nobel Peace Laureate. Such a decision, while shocking to many, is merely the logical extension of European, particularly Nordic/Scandinavian, policy for at least the last two decades. As long as one ...

From ROGER BATE, The New Ledger,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  Barack Obama,  American Enterprise Institute,  Vaclav Klaus,  George W. Bush

Let’s Call Them What They Are: Counterfeits

avoid using the word counterfeit since this term is often associated with intellectual-property issues and could lead some to believe that the initiative is aimed at protecting pharmaceutical companies’ profits, not safeguarding public ...

From ROGER BATE, The American | American Enterprise Institute,  9 Oct 2009

Zimbabwe’s Tsvangirai Should Have Won the Nobel Peace Prize

Morgan Tsvangirai should have won the Nobel Peace Prize this year, and for sure he could have done a lot with the $1.4 million prize. He has suffered significantly over the past decade, and done more than anyone to promote the long term peace of ...

From ROGER BATE, The American | American Enterprise Institute,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Morgan Tsvangirai,  Robert Mugabe,  International Monetary Fund

European Court Affirms Price Discrimination

LONDON — While the U.S. Congress debates the importation of pharmaceuticals from Europe, a key decision has been handed down by the European Court, as reported by the New York Times. The court said that regulators should reconsider whether efforts by ...

From ROGER BATE, The American | American Enterprise Institute,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  New York Times Company

India’s Counterfeit Claims on Counterfeit Drugs

Experts are adamant that the survey is not representative of the country as a whole. The evidence supporting that conclusion is significant. My ongoing research found one wholesaler in Delhi alone with a fake drug rate of 18 percent. This makes me very ...

From ROGER BATE, The American | American Enterprise Institute,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: United Nations

Drug Reimportation: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pledged that the Senate would, before year-end, debate allowing Americans to re-import US-approved prescription drugs, whether or not they come up in the health care reform debate. Senator Reid has ...

From ROGER BATE, The New Ledger,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid,  US Food and Drug Administration,  Byron Dorgan,  European Union,  Food and Drug Administration

When Local Production Is Not the Answer

With the exception of countries such as India, South Africa, and perhaps Nigeria, most developing countries do not have the local conditions necessary to handle drug production. 93 percent of the drugs procured by a Ugandan government body did not ...

From ROGER BATE, The American | American Enterprise Institute,  1 Sep 2009

Related Topics: World Health Organization,  Food and Drug Administration

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