Doug Bandow
dbandow@cato.orgDoug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of a number of books on economics and politics. He writes regularly on military non-interventionism.
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Scarcity as Incentive: Making Do with Less in Dubai
MAY 27, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW
Dubai has no oil, but plenty of money. It's another example of how innovation, in this case driven by scarcity, creates wealth.
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Why Is There a Dole for Farmers?
APRIL 26, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW
Farm welfare takes money from some hardworking Americans to give to other hardworking Americans with more romantic-sounding jobs. This system makes no sense, especially when Washington is already broke.
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The Minimum Wage: Apparently Benevolent, Completely Wrong
MARCH 10, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW
Raising the minimum wage is an attempt by the government to create wealth out of nothing. It winds up destroying it instead.
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The Self-Congratulation of the “Public Servant”
JANUARY 23, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW
Entrepreneurs and other actors in the private sector provide far more public service than politicians and bureaucrats.
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Whither Kuwait: Illiberal Democracy or Enlightened Autocracy?
JANUARY 15, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW
The growing support for a religious regime among Kuwait's young shows how democracy, without limits to State power, can threaten a free society.
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