While attending an event on the flat tax in Beijing yesterday, I was handed a copy of the Property Rights Alliance’s 2010 International Property Rights Index, which looks at the Legal and Political Environment, Physical Property Rights, and Intellectual Property Rights. The report is created with the help of 62 organizations from around the world, [...]

Can America’s greatness be sustained in the absence of national solvency?, so asks Judy Shelton, Atlas’s Sound Money Project Senior Fellow, in today’s Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, “The United States: Debtor and Leader?.”  Concerned that our fiscal irresponsibility is making us vulnerable on the world stage, she raises an alarm about America’s potential decline [...]

I was personally handed a copy of Li Ziyang’s new book, The Power of the Market. (Sadly, the book is only available in Chinese. For now.) Li is a very sharp and very insightful writer for the Ipencil Economic Research Institute, based in Beijing. Although he studied politics at Peking University, he is a self-taught [...]

The title is tongue in cheek, but as we’ve seen in the movement of goods and capital around the globe, so too can we see the benefits of labor migration when we look closely. Dr Amitendu Palit of the Institute for South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, has a sharp column on [...]

A friend alerted me to a wonderful and much deserved new festschrift for Prof. Mao Yushi, one of China’s most courageous economists, and the founder of the Unirule Institute of Economics. The book, entitled An 80 Year Retrospective features 40 pages of autobiography, and then scores of essays by friends and libertarians on the influence [...]

Great news for the Cato Institute’s David Boaz: his wonderful book, Libertarianism: A Primer was reviewed in a prominent Chinese-language newspaper in Shanghai by our friend at the Cathay Institute of Public Affairs, Liu Junning. This Chinese-edition of the book was translated by Guomin Liyi’s own Alan Chen, and has been a labor of love [...]

A 329-page study, “Capital Freedom of China: 2009 Annual Report,” was released this week by authors Feng Xingyuan, Mao Shoulong
and Xia Yeliang of the Cathay Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA). The study provides an in-depth view of the definition and role on capital in China.
Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity General Director [...]

At a recent meeting in Singapore, I had the pleasure of discussing ways to promote increased trade between India and China. Two of the participants of that meeting, Alec van Gelder of the International Policy Network and Dr. Amitendu Palit of the Institute of South Asian Studies of the National University of Singapore, have taken some of the [...]

Actually, Deng Xiaoping never uttered that exact phrase, but the subsequent history writers in China decided that this pairing was better than Deng’s original utterance “It doesn’t matter if a cat is yellow or black, it’s a good one as long as it catches mice.”
But Deng is very much on the minds of many here [...]

Today sees the start of the annual plenary session of the Communists Party’s 17th Central Committee. This year’s meeting is of particular interest, as it may (or may not) be during this week that we find out for sure who the next leader of the CCP will be. If, as many expect, Xi Jinping is [...]