The only thing worse than Katrina's devastating destruction
is government's horrific "help." http://www.lewrockwell.com/akers/akers16.html
So-called "price gouging" in emergencies is also defended
by Walter Williams HERE: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3578
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20040324.shtml
Frank Bubb HERE: http://www.objectivistcenter.org/text/fbubb_hurricane-gouging.asp?mc
and by Sheldon Richman HERE: http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=6181
Economics textbook chapters on price controls are excerpted
here: http://FreedomKeys.com/pricecontrols.htm
Norman Borlaug, born March 25, 1914, died September 12, 2009 at age 95 in Dallas (where he taught at Texas A&M University at a distinguished professor). http://rexcurry.net/socialismmalthus.html Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Ernest Borlaug developed a type of wheat that helped feed the world, fostering a movement that is credited with saving up to 1 billion people from starvation. Dr. Borlaug saved more lives than any man in human history. RexCurry.net reports that the number of lives Borlaug saved is greater than the number of lives lost under Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong and Adolf Hitler in the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): ~60 million slaugtered or starved under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; ~50 million under the Peoples Republic of China; ~20 million under the National Socialist German Workers Party. He was known as the father of the "green revolution," which transformed agriculture through high-yield crop varieties and other innovations, helping to more than double world food production between 1960 and 1990. Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps a billion lives. He inspired the phrase "Capitalist are the true Greens." He has probably done more and is known by fewer people than anybody that has done that much. Dr. Borlaug began the work that led to his Nobel Prize in Mexico at the end of World War II. There he developed disease-resistant varieties of wheat that produced much more grain than traditional strains. He and others took those varieties and improved strains of rice and corn to Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa. In Pakistan and India, two of the nations that benefited most from the new crop varieties, grain yields more than quadrupled. His successes in the 1960s came just while eco-nuts warned that mass starvation was inevitable as the world's population boomed. The same eco-nuts would also criticized Dr. Borlaug and the capitalist green revolution in later decades for promoting practices that used fertilizer and pesticides and for focusing on a few high-yield crops that benefited so-called "large landowners." A 2006 book about him is titled The Man Who Fed the World. |