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Agricultura de libre mercado en Nueva Zelanda
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Chris Edwards
Luis
New Zealand’s Free Market Farming

After a difficult period of adjustment in the 1980s, New Zealand agricultural productivity quadrupled.

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Hayek y la libertad
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Steven Horwitz
Luis
Hayek and Freedom

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to look through a transcription of a set of note cards that F. A. Hayek kept through the latter years of his life. It was fascinating to see how he wrote for himself and to get glimpses of ideas that would later be more fully fleshed out. One theme that emerges in those cards, and that has been pervasive over Hayek’s career, is his understanding of freedom. It is a nuanced and sophisticated conception of human freedom that differentiates itself from the ways the term is used by the left and the right. Classical liberals should understand Hayek’s view of freedom, and its connection to tradition and the coordinating role of institutions, to avoid the problems that confront other conceptions of freedom.

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La promesa del individualismo
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Erec Smith
Luis
The Promise of Individualism

There is no such thing as a panacea; few things are actual cure‐​alls in themselves, especially when it pertains to social issues. However, the closest thing to a panacea for contemporary social injustice—both actual and perceived—is the concept of individualism. It is the closest foil to what is, arguably, the most dangerous aspect of critical social justice activism: race fatalism, i.e., the idea that especially minoritized groups have no locus of control and are at the mercy of their hegemonic oppressors.

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Lula Rousseff narrativas
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Manuel Hinds
Luis
Lula, Rousseff and narratives

In a few years, the populists of the Sao Paulo Forum used well-wrought tales to resurrect the greatest failure of a power system, communism, in a triumphant march to take over Latin America. Now he is using his "narrative" powers to help Putin, a classic fascist, to re-integrate fascism with the extreme left and right in the region. And he, convicted of corruption, free on procedural grounds, takes great pride in his ability to put together narratives that hide reality.

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trampa de la pobreza
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Jorge L. Rodríguez
Luis
Congress Can Help Puerto Rico Escape the Food Stamp Poverty Trap

Each year, the U.S. Congress allocates over $400 million for food assistance to support more than 250,000 residents of Puerto Rico who are able-bodied adults without dependents, and are between the ages of 18 and 54. Notably, this financial assistance does not come with a work obligation. Congress does not apply this approach to any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or even to Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Beneficiaries of nutritional assistance in these jurisdictions are under the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), which includes a work requirement. It's time to bring Puerto Rico into the same program.

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Institute for Justice
Federal Judge hands free-speech victory to retired engineer.

Court holds that state officials violated the First Amendment when they ordered retired engineer Wayne Nutt to stop talking about math in public.

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Miguel Romero se desliga
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El Nuevo Día
Miguel Romero dissociates himself from San Juan's poor marks in competitiveness report

The mayor assures that the University of Arizona's analysis uses data from years prior to his administration, but the report reveals weaknesses that transcend the capital city.

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Newsroom, The News Journal
San Juan ranked as most difficult US city to do business in, study says

The report measures the ease of doing business in 83 major U.S. cities.

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News is my Business
Study ranks San Juan as hardest US city to do business in

The Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at Arizona State University recently published the “Doing Business North America 2022 Report,” which measures the ease of doing business in 83 major U.S. cities. Now in its fourth edition, the report included San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the first time as a result of the Puerto Rico Institute for Economic Liberty’s (ILE) collaboration with the center, according to the ILE.

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El Nuevo Dia
San Juan is the most difficult U.S. city to do business in, according to a new report

The Puerto Rican capital ranks last in an analysis that included 83 U.S. cities.

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El Nuevo Día
In the end, let's talk about the Doing Business North America 2022 report

A University of Arizona analysis ranks the capital city last out of 83 cities in the U.S. What does it mean and why are we doing so poorly?

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San Juan is the most difficult city to do business in, of all major cities in the U.S.

The capital of Puerto Rico was included for the first time in the Doing Business North America 2022 Report published by Arizona State University.

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