Tiffany B. Brown

a mish-mosh of stuff

Posts tagged: capitalism

On free markets
So as far as markets are concerned I’m a libertarian, but I have enough expertise in politics and history to understand that a free market ends up as monopoly unless you force them to be free. One of a few quotes that jumped out at me in Andy Greenberg’s Forbes (long-ish) interview with WikiLeaks’ Julian [...] [1 Dec 2010]
On immigration and a social welfare society
Is Australian anti-immigration sentiment solely due to racism or is it concern for Australian economic and cultural health? Australian publication The Punch looks at how Australia — also a nation of capitalist imperialists, social outcasts, and the poor sots they imported to do their bidding immigrants — compares with the United States. America has resettled [...] [20 Nov 2009]