| Period: Winter 2023 | |
| Instructor: Pierre Desrochers | Office: Davis Building, room 3273 |
| Lectures: Tuesday 1-3 PM | Lecture room: CC 3150 (in person) |
| Phone: (905) 828-5206 | E-mail: pierre.desrochers@utoronto.ca |
Lecture 1 (January 10): Introduction and Concepts
Lecture 2 (January 17): Transportation 1
Lecture 3 (January 24): Transportation 2
Lecture 4 (January 31): Battle of Ideas 1
Lecture 5 (February 7): Battle of Ideas 2
Lecture 6: (February 14): Globalization and Culture
Reading Week (February 21)
Lecture 7 (February 28): Market Liberalization, Sweatshops, Child Labor and Fair Trade 1
Lecture 8 (March 7): Market Liberalization, Sweatshops, Child Labor and Fair Trade 2
Lecture 9 (March 14): Market Liberalization, Sweatshops, Child Labor and Fair Trade 3
Lecture 10 (Mach 21): Global Institutions, Foreign Aid and the Environment 1
Lecture 11 (March 28): Global Institutions, Foreign Aid and the Environment 2
Lecture 12 (April 4): Global Institutions, Foreign Aid and the Environment 3
REQUIRED VIDEOS
Global trends
American Museum of Natural History. 2016. “Human Population through Time.”
Boudreaux, Don. 2014. “The Hockey Stick of Human Prosperity.” MR University: Every Day Economics.
Hans Rosling’s 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four
Human Progress. 2021. Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know – YouTube.
Economic Principles
Carden, Art. 2013. “Specialization and Trade: Because We Can’t Be Good At Everything.” LearnLiberty.org.
Marginal Revolution University. 2012. Principles of Economics – Microeconomics : Arguments against International Trade.
REQUIRED READINGS
Concepts
Library of Congress Business Reference Services. Business & Economics Research Advisor (2012/2004)
Defining Globalization
History of Globalization
Elements of Globalization
Trends in Globalization
Irwin, Douglas A. 2001. “A Brief History of International Trade Policy.” The Library of Economics and Liberty, November 26.
Boudreaux, Don. 2020. “Free Trade in Ten Easy Points.” AIER (February 24).
Fletcher, Ian. 2011. “The Theory That’s Killing America’s Economy – and Why It’s Wrong.” Huffington Post (April 7).
Cass, Oren. 2020. “Comparative Disadvantage.” Law and Liberty (January 15).
Historical perspective
Sanandaji, Nima. 2018. “Markets are as Old as Civilization. The market system was born in Iraq and Syria, not invented by Adam Smith.” @HumanProgress (May 16).
Ebeling, Richard M. 2004. “The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright.” The Freeman – Ideas on Liberty, September 1st.
Broadberry, Stephen. 2013. “Accounting for the Great Divergence.” Vox (November 16).
Current controversies
Roser, Max. 2016. “Proof that Life is Getting Better for Humanity, in 5 Charts.” Vox (December 23).
Hammond, Alexander C. R. 2017. “The World’s Poorest People Are Getting Richer Faster.” @HumanProgress (October 27).
Burkeman, Oliver. 2017. “Is the World Really Better than Ever?” The Guardian (July 28).
Boudry, Maarten and Nick Brown. 2022. “Why Covid Did Not Spell the End of Globalisation.” Aero (April 19).
Sumner, Scott. 2022. “Should we have free trade in a dangerous world?” Econlib (April 12).
Murphy, Jon. 2022. “Does National Security Justify Tariffs?” Econlib (May 7).
In Practice (Case studies)
Steelman, Jacob D. 2003. “Protectionism Didn’t Help Copper.” Ludwig von Mises Institute, August 9.
Dunaeva, Aleksandra, and Don Mathews. 2007. “How the Shrimp Tariff Backfired.” Ludwig von Mises Institute, August 1st.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Concepts
Wikipedia
Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
- “Free Trade” (Blinder, Alan S.)
- “Protectionism” (Bhagwati, Jagdish)
- “Mercantilism” (LaHaye, Laura)
- “International Trade Agreements” (Irwin, Douglas A.)
Econlib Guides – College Economic Topics
Kling, Arnold. 2016. Specialization and Trade. A Re-Introduction to Economics. Cato Institute.
Rockwell, Llewellyn H. 2003. “Mercantilism, USA” Ludwig von Mises Institute (July 26).
Findlay, Ronald, and Kevin H. O’Rourke. 2008. “Lessons From the History of Trade and War. ” vox (10 March).
Historical Perspective
My GGR 329 Geography and the Roots of Globalization course webpage contains several links to the pre- and more recent history of globalization.
Cave, Christine. Undated. “Think Everyone Died Young in Ancient Societies? Think Again.” Aeon.
Chanda, Nayan. 2002. “Coming Together: Globalization Means Reconnecting the Human Community.” YaleGlobal (November 19).
Overview and Controversies (Present Time)
- Optimists / Supporters
Roser, Max. 2017. “No Matter what Extreme Poverty Line you Choose, the Share of People Below that Poverty Line has Declined Globally.” Our World in Data – Blog (April 5).
Hughes, Charles. 2017. “We’re Seeing Massive Reductions in Global Poverty. Today, one person escapes extreme poverty every second.” Fee.org (June 19).
Follett, Chelsea. 2017. “5 Charts That Will Shift Your Perspective on Poverty. Is the end of poverty in sight?” Fee.org (March 21).
McMahon, Fred. 2018. “As the World Shifted to Free Markets, Poverty Rates Plummeted.” Fraser Forum (November 13).
Cohen, Patricia. 2011. “Technology Advances; Human Supersize.” The New York Times (April 26).
Kolata, Gina. 2006. “So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You.” The New York Times (July 30).
Lomborg, Bjørn. 2017. “Oxfam’s Upside Down Inequality Study.” USA Today (January 17).
Horwitz, Steven. 2013. “The Calling: In Defense of Complex, Global, Fast Living.” Future of Freedom Foundation.
Perry, Mark. 2014. “It’s the Greatest Achievement in Human History, and One you Probably never Heard About.” Carpe Diem Blog (AEI) (November 3).
Maxmen, Amy. 2016. “The Myth Buster: Hans Rosling is on a Mission to Save the World from Preconceived Ideas.” Nature 540 (7633) : 330-333.
Pinkovskiy, Maxim, and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 2010. “African Poverty is Falling… Much Faster than You Think.” Vox (December 6).
DeGregori, Thomas R. 2005. “Quietly, Invisibly, Ominously Getting Healthier and Healthier.” HealthFactsAndFears.com (September 30).
Rector, Robert and Rachel Sheffield. 2011. Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What Is Poverty in the United States Today? Backgrounder #2575, Heritage Foundation (Executive Summary).
- Pessimists / Critics
Jerven, Morton. 2015. “Misunderstanding Growth in Africa: How Economists get it Wrong.” African Arguments (June 9).
Hickel, Jason. 2014. “Exposing the Great ‘Poverty Reduction’ Lie. The UN claims that its Millennium Development Campaign has reduced poverty globally, but some measures show it is worse.” Al Jazeera (August 21).
Oxfam International. 2017. “Just 8 Men Own Same wealth as Half the World.” (January 16).
For Free(r) Trade
Mitchell, Dan. 2018. “7 Reasons to Support Free Trade. The bottom line is that Trump’s protectionism is bad policy. And risky policy.” Fee.org (September 26).
Boudreaux, Don. 2020. “Twelve Principles of International Trade.” American Institute for Economic Research
– Part 4 (January 13, 2021)
– Part 3 (December 28, 2020)
– Part 2 (December 8, 2020)
– Part 1 (December 3, 2020)
Williamson, Kevin. 2021. “Economic Nationalism 2.0.” (February 4).
Hammond, Alexander C.R. 2021. “Africa Tries Free Trade. Liberal ideas are beginning to gain traction on the world’s poorest continent.” Reason (April).
Boyer, Marcel. 2020. “Free Trade and Economic Policies: A Critique of Empirical Reason (The Working Paper Version).” CIRANO Cahier scientifique 2020S-56.
Ikenson, Daniel. 2014. “Enduring Myths that Obscure the Case for Free Trade.” Cato at Liberty (December 1).
Murray, Ian. 2018. “The Case for Free Trade Restated.” Fee.org (August 20).
Boudreaux, Don. 2020. “Adam Smith’s Alleged “Exceptions” to a Policy of Unilateral Free Trade.” AIER (March 9).
Gregg, Samuel. 2020. “How Economic Nationalism Hurts Nations.” Law and Liberty (January 6).
Henderson, David. 2021. (Hoover Institution)
- A Refresher Course On Free Trade (June 17)
- Dispelling Two Objections to Free Trade (July 1)
Magness, Phil and James R. Harrigan. 2022. “Henry Clay’s “American System” Is Bad News for the American Economy.” AIER (December 8).
Jelloian, Alexander. 2022. “Agricultural Subsidies in Wealthy Countries Hurt African Producers. By artificially lowering commodity prices, subsidies prevent African producers from earning a fair price for their labor.” Human Progress (June 28).
Magness, Phil. 2023. “NatCons, the American System, and the Founders.” AIER (February 22).
Magness, Phil. 2021. “Why I am Not a Neoliberal.” AIER (March 6).
Against Free(r) Trade
Regaining Our Balance – American Compass.
Philipsen, Dirk. 2020. “Economics for the People.” Aeon (October 22).
Economic Helps. 2016. “Arguments against Free Trade.”
Culbertson, John M. 1986. “The Folly of Free Trade.” Harvard Business Review (September).
Fletcher, Ian. 2016 (updated). “Five Years Later, Free Trade Still Doesn’t Work.” Huffington Post (November 17).
Burtka IV, John A. 2022. “Don’t Trade on Me.” American Compass (September 16).
Ellis, Curtis. 2023. “An American System for America Prosperity.” American Greatness (March 18).
SUGGESTED LINKS
The Global Policy Forum on Globalization
The Global Transformations website
REQUIRED VIDEOS
Transportation
LECTURE 2
Historical perspective
Around the World in 80 Day (1956 trailer)
USDA, Resettlement Administration. 1937. “Loading Cotton Bales On Steam Boat.”
[Cultural interlude, optional]
“Ol’ Man River” from Showboat (1936) sung by Paul Robeson (A 20th Century classic hinting at what the logistics industry looked like in the late 19th Century.)
Song of the Volga Boatmen (Leonid Kharitonov and The Red Army Choir).
Proud Mary (Live) – Ike & Tina Turner (RAI 1971).
Modern logistics industry
UPS. 2011. We Love Logistics.
PolyMatter. 2018. “How Container Ships Work” (you can skip to 2:15).
Free To Choose Network | Johan Norberg’s New and Improved – The Container (November 17, 2021).
Financial Times. 2013. “Container Shipping. The World in a Box.”
Maersk. 2021. “Round-the-clock operation to deliver pineapples.” (September 24).
Port of Long Beach. 2010. “Pulse of the Port: Refrigerated Containers.”
[Recommended, but optional]
Learn Liberty. 2017. The Most Important Invention you Never Thought About.
FleetMonCom. 2016. “Global ship traffic seen from space – FleetMon Satellite AIS and FleetMon Explorer.”
LECTURE 3
Cargo sail
Decosse, Ben. 2017. “Cargo under Sail.” TedX (December 20).
Vice News. 2017. “The Shipping Industry May Finally Be Turning To Wind Power (HBO).” (October 11).
Anemoi. 2018. Anemoi Rotor Sails – m/v Afros Launch.
Communication
Routley, Nick. 2019. “Wired World: 35 Years of Submarine Cables in One Map.” Visual Capitalist (December 2).
Bloomberg Quicktakes. 2019. “The Undersea Cable That Linked The World.” (April 16).
Varia
Vox. 2018. “China’s Trillion Dollar Plan to Dominate Global Trade.”
REQUIRED READINGS
LECTURE 2
- Transportation
Overview
The History of Transportation
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul. 2013. The Geography of Transport Systems (5th edition) Routledge.
Chapter 1: Transportation and Geography
- Transportation and Space
- The Emergence of Mechanized Transportation Systems
- The Setting of Global Transportation Systems
Ruppenthal, Karl. M. 2015 (revised). “Transportation.” Canadian Encyclopedia.
- History
Land
Follett, Chelsea. 2020. “Centers of Progress, Pt. 9: Rome (Roads).” HumanProgress.org (August 13).
“Medieval Trade Route Networks.”
Staff Writer. Undated. “Inca Roads and Chasquis.” Discover Peru.
- Water
Iphigenia (greekmythology.com)
MOL Blog. 2021. History and Transition of Marine Fuel (August 7).
Pascali, Luigi. 2019. “The Impact of the Steamship on Global Trade and Development.” VoxDev (February 18).
LECTURE 3
- COVID and Logistics
Earle, Peter C. 2022. “Ocean Shipping’s Effect on Inflation was Negligible.” AIER (December 14).
- Sail Cargo movement
Hoffmeister, Hasso and Uwe Hollenbach. 2022. “More commercial ships utilize wind technologies to cut emissions.” Maritime Impact (February 5).
Designed Conscious. “Sailing Ships Hauling Cargo in 2021.”
De Decker, Kris. 2021. “How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?” Low-tech Magazine (May).
- Other options
Wikipedia – NS Savannah
Anonymous. 2021. “Samsung to Explore MSR Nuclear Power for Zero Emission Shipping.” The Maritime Executive (June 9).
Smil, Vaclav. 2019. “Electric Container Ships Are a Hard Sail.” IEEE Spectrum (March).
– Modern Logistics Industry
o Overview
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul. 2013. The Geography of Transport Systems (5th edition) Routledge.
Chapter 1: Transportation and Geography
Chapter 5 – Transportation Modes
- Transportation Modes, Modal Competition and Modal Shift
- Intermodal Transportation and Containerization
World Shipping Council
– About the Industry (browse)
– Glossary of Industry Terms (browse)
– History of Containerization
* Before Container Shipping
* The Birth of Intermodalism
* Industry Globalization
Rentz, Michael. 2021. “The Supply Chain’s Inconvenient Truth.” Law and Liberty (December 6).
o History of container shipping
Gateway Container. Undated. “A Brief History of Shipping Containers.”
Hammond, Alexander C. 2019. “Heroes of Progress, Pt. 17: Malcom McLean.” HumanProgress.org (May 3).
Wang, Dan. 2016. “An Interview With Marc Levinson, Author of ‘The Box’.” Flexport Blog (March 29).
Hampstead, John Paul. 2017. “Panama Canal Expansion Pits East Coast vs. West Coast.” Freight Waves (November 13).
o The cold chain
99% Invisible. 2015. “The Climate-Controlled Shipping Containers That Transport Our Food Are Called Reefers.” Slate (September 9).
Gill, Vijay. 2013. Fast and Fresh: A Recipe for Canada’s Food Supply Chain.s Conference Board of Canada (Executive Summary).
SUGGESTED READINGS
Transportation
-Overview
On Wikipedia.
– History of Transport
– Outline of Transport
– Trade Route
Canadian Encyclopedia. “Transportation“
Lemieux, Pierre. 2021. “The Supply Chain Myth.” Econlog (November 18).
Hadley, Arthur T. 1881. “TRANSPORTATION, Means of.” In Lalor, John J. (ed) Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy vol. 3.
-Road and land infrastructure
On Wikipedia.
Encyclopedia Britannica. “Roads and Highways.”
Nam, Jong Kuk. 2016. “The scarsella between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1400s.” Mediterranean Review 9 (1): 53-75.
Mr Pavement. 2015. “A Brief History of Asphalt.”
Hearfield, John. 2012. Roads in the 18th century.
Sterne, Simon. 1881. ”RAILWAYS, History and Political Economy of.” In Lalor, John J. (ed) Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy vol. 3.
Hadley, Arthur Twining. 1885. Railroad Transportation: Its History and Its Laws. G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Freightcourse. Undated.
-Canada/Ontario
Railroad
- Wikipedia: Canadian National Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway ; James J. Hill
- Marsh, James H. 2015/2006. “Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.” Canadian Encyclopedia
- Toronto Historical Railway Association: Grand Trunk Railway
- CN logo evolution
- The CP logo
Highways
- Wikipedia: Trans-Canada Highway
-River and Maritime Transportation
Historical Overview
On Wikipedia.
– Maritime Transport
– Merchant Ship
– Sailing Ship
– Kyrenia Ship
Anonymous. 1936. “Last Days of Sail. The twentieth century, with its remarkable scientific progress, its desire for speed and its overpowering economic forces, is now seeing the inevitable disappearance of the large sailing vessel.” Shipping Wonders of the World Vol 2, part 28 (August 18).
Lewandowski, Krzysztof. 2016. “Growth in the Size of Unit Loads and Shipping Containers from Antique to WWI.” Packaging Technology and Science 29 (8-9): 451-478.
Graham, Gerald S. 1956. “The Ascendancy of the Sailing Ship 1850–85.” Economic History Review 9 (1): 74–88.
Infrastructure
o Cranes
Cargo-Partner. Undated. “History of Cranes”
Freightcourse. Undated. “Port Cranes: Everything You Need to Know”
Plant Planet. 2018. “A Brief History of Cranes”
o Canals
– World
McCulloch. John Ramsey. 1881. “Canals” In Lalor, John J. (ed) Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy volume 1.
Gordon, John Steele. 2014. “100 Years of the Panama Canal.” The American (August 15).
– United States
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul. 2020. The Geography of Transport Systems, 5th edition. Routledge. “Major Canals Built in the 19th Century, American Northeast.”
US National Park Service. History of the Ohio & Erie Canal.
– Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
- Wikipedia – Lawrence Seaway; Soo Locks
- Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System
- Encyclopedia Britannica. St. Lawrence Seaway
- Walker, Nick. 2019. “Celebrating 60 years of the St. Lawrence Seaway.” Canadian Geographic (June 6).
– Ontario
Welland Canal
- Welland Canal
- Welland Canal. History
Rideau Canal
- Rideau Canal
- Rideau Canal Homepage. History of the Rideau Canal
- Parks Canada. Rideau Canal National Historical Site
Trent-Severn Waterway
- Trent–Severn Waterway
- Parks Canada. Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site
- Foran, Charles. “Trent-Severn Waterway : The Waterway.” Canadian Geographic (March 1)
Energy transitions
-Overview
Encyclopedia Britannica. Shipping in the 19th century.
Historic England. 2016/2012. Ships and Boats 1840-1950. English Heritage.
-Sail
Marine Insight
Ancient Ports – Ports Antiques. “Ancient Merchant Ships.”
Royal Museums Greenwich. 2012. “18th century sailing times between the English Channel and the Coast of America: How long did it take?” National Maritime Museum (November 8).
Wikipedia
– Iron-hulled sailing ship
– Windjammer
– Pamir (ship)
Apollonio, Spencer (ed). 2001. The Last of the Cape Horners: Firsthand Accounts From the Final Days of the Commercial Tall Ships . Potomac Books.
Video – The Last Cape Horners – The End of the Great Sailing Ship Era (2006) (Background information).
Transition from sail to steam (coal)
-Overview and technical issues
Wikipedia – Coaling (ships)
-Great Lakes
Martin, Jay C. 2018. “Scows, and barges, or other vessels of box model’: Comparative capital investment in the sailing scows of the Great Lakes of North America and in New Zealand.” International Journal of Maritime History 30 (1): 89-105.
Lewis, Walter. 2015. “Transition from Sail to Steam on the Great Lakes in the Nineteenth Century.” The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord 25 (4) (October): 345-374.
McNamara, James. 2018. “Maritime History Notes: Tug barge units.” American Shipper (August 28).
Larson, John W. 1983. History of Great Lakes Navigation. Navigation History NWS-83-4.
Bowen, Dana Thomas. 1954. “Great Lakes Ships and Shipping.” Minnesota History 34 (1) (Spring): 9-16.
Wikipedia – Consort (nautical); Schooner barge
Galloway, Tori L. et al. Scow Schooners: A Regional Analysis Final Report and Documentation. State Archaeology and Maritime Preservation Final Report: Project Number 2020-002.
Jacobs, Frank. 2022. “Great Lakes shipwrecks: Maps reveal an underwater graveyard.” Big Think (April 7).
-Oceanic voyages
Anonymous. 1895. “The Early History of Ocean Steam Navigation.” Scientific American 73 (25): 392-393 (December).
Smil, Vaclav. 2018. “April 1838: Crossing the Atlantic.” IEEE Spectrum (April): 23.
Pascali, Luigi. 2017. “The Wind of Change: Maritime Technology, Trade, and Economic Development.” American Economic Review 107 (9): 2821-54.
Fletcher, Max. E. “The Suez Canal and World Shipping, 1869-1914.” The Journal of Economic History 18 (4): 556-573.
Graham, Gerald S. 1956. “The Ascendancy of the Sailing Ship 1850–85.” Economic History Review 9 (1): 74–88.
Shipping Wonders of the World (1936)
- “Last Days of Sail. The twentieth century, with its remarkable scientific progress, its desire for speed and its overpowering economic forces, is now seeing the inevitable disappearance of the large sailing vessel.” Vol 2, part 28 (August 18).
- “Auxiliary Sailing Vessels.” Vol. 1, part 21 (June 30th).
Transition from coal to refined petroleum products
Editors (2020/2008). “Petroleum and Sea Power.” American Oil & Gas Historical Society.
Division of Naval Intelligence (US Navy). 1944. “Merchant Ship Shapes” US Government Printing Office.
Smil, Vaclav. 2010. Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. MIT Press.
– Review by Nick Schulz, Wall Street Journal (December 1, 2010)
– Review by Mark Reutter, Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2011)
– Review by William Sjostrom, Eh.net (August 2012)
Modern Cargo Shipping
– Overview
Wikipedia
– Cargo ship
– Bulk carrier
– Reefer ships
– Roll-on / Roll-off ship
– Heavy-lift ship
Marine Insight
– What are cargo ships?
– The Ultimate Guide to Ship Sizes
Cruisemapper. 2017. “Largest Container Ships.” (March 16).
Freightcourse. Undated.
– Container shipping
Wikipedia
– Container ship
Discover Containers. Undated. Shipping Container History: Boxes to Buildings.
Desrochers, Pierre. Review of Marc Levinson’s The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton University Press, 2006), Independent Review, vol. 12, no. 1, (Summer 2007), pp. 146-149.
Candela, Rosolino, Peter Jacobsen and Kacey Reeves. 2020. Malcom McLean, Containerization and Entrepreneurship. SSRN.
Nagurney, Anna. 2021. “Opinion: Container ships will keep getting bigger — even after the Ever Given becoming stuck in the Suez Canal.” Market Watch (April 5).
Corbett, James J. 2008. The Impacts of Globalisation on International Maritime Transport Activity. OECD and ITF.
Cudahy, Brian J. 2006. “The Containership Revolution. Malcom MacLean’s 1956 Innovation Goes Global.” TR News (The Transportation Research Board of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences) (September-October): 5-9.
Werber Cassie and Lila MacLellan. 2017. “Queen of Cool: The scientist who traveled the world in a shipping container to study cold storage.” Quartz (November 2).
Freightcourse. Undated.
-Geopolitics
Bailey, Rob and and Laura Wellesley. 2017. Chokepoints and Vulnerabilities in Global Food Trade. Chatham House (Key Findings and Recommendations).
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul. 2013. The Geography of Transport Systems (5th edition) Routledge.
Chapter 11: Applications and Case Studies
-COVID 19 and transportation
Logistics Insights. 2020. “4 Big Logistics Challenges of COVID-19 – and How to Overcome Them.” (August 18).
IFC. 2020. The Impact of COVID-19 on Logistics. World Bank.
Kamall, Syad. 2020. Freight Expectations. Post-pandemic prospects for global trade. IEA.
Earle, Peter C. 2021. “An Armor Conspired: the Global Shipping Freeze.” American Institute for Economic Research (October 2).
The Sail Cargo Movement
– Overview
Almendral, Aurora. 2021. “Can Massive Cargo Ships Use Wind to Go Green?” New York Times (June 24).
Cutcher, Nicola. 2019. “Winds of Change: The sailing ships cleaning up sea transport.” The Guardian (October 23).
Melotti, Robert. 2018. “Trading under sail – could you make a living from transporting cargo on board?” PBO Magazine (February 21).
De Beukalaer, Christiaan. 2023. Trade winds: A voyage to a sustainable future for shipping. Manchester University Press.
– Rationale
Crossland, David. 2013. “Wind set fair for sail power’s return. As operating costs continue to soar and the pressure on the cargo shipping industry to curb carbon dioxide emissions intensifies, a more gentle alternative to dirty fossil fuel looks increasingly attractive.” National News (Business) (March 13).
IMO 2020. Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships. Fourth IMO GHG Study 2020 – Final report.
De Beukelaer, Christiaan. 2022. “Tack to the future: is wind propulsion an ecomodernist or degrowth way to decarbonise maritime cargo transport?” Climate Policy 22 (3): 310-319.
De Beukelaer, Christiaan. 2020. “Sail cargo: Charting a new path for emission-free shipping?” UNCTAD Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter N°88, article 65 (November 5).
Steavenson, Wendell. 2022. “‘It’s a little bit of utopia’: the dream of replacing container ships with sailing boats.” The Guardian (July 14).
Towey, Hannah. 2022. “How a Canadian coffee roaster is replacing container ships with sailboats to decarbonize its supply chain — and cutting costs in the process.” Insider (August 22).
Willner, Andrew. 2021. “New age of sail looks to slash massive maritime carbon emissions.” Mongabay (March 15).
Stone, Maddie. 2021. “The shipping industry faces a climate crisis reckoning – will it decarbonize?” The Guardian (November 12).
Peters, Adele. 2019 “Cargo ships are big polluters. can they go back to using sails?” Fast Company (July 16).
Jensen, Fred. 2015. “Updating the Sailing Cargo Ship.” Machine Design (February 12).
Spross, Jeff. 2019. “Why cargo ships might (literally) sail the high seas again.” The Week (February 26).
Associated Press. 2018. “Sails make a comeback as shipping tries to go green. ‘Rotor sails’ can replace up to half a ship’s engine propulsion on a windy day, Norsepower says.” CBC (December 6).
International Maritime Organization. Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Flannery, Jim. 2015. “Sail freight experiences a rebirth.” Soundings (August 20).
De Beukaler, Christiann. 2018. “Plain Sailing: How traditional methods could deliver zero-emission shipping.” The Conversation (May 27).
Wetherall, Tyler. 2021. “Cargo shipping of yore returns to Hudson River Sailing vessel Schooner Apollonia delivers on dream of transporting goods by wind power.” Times-Union (April 22).
Wetherall, Tyler. 2021. “Cargo shipping of yore returns to Hudson River Sailing vessel Schooner Apollonia delivers on dream of transporting goods by wind power.” Times-Union (April 22).
– Technologies
Kantharia, Raunek. 2019. “Top 7 Green Ship Concepts Using Wind Energy.” Marine Insight (October 7).
Woods, Steven. 2021. “Sail Freight Revival: Methods Of Calculating Fleet, Labor, And Cargo Needs For Supplying Cities By Sail.” Prescott College (Capstone Project).
King, Anthony. 2022. “Emissions-free sailing is full steam ahead for ocean-going shipping. It’s full steam ahead for the European shipping industry as a new wave of clean-energy tech is set to throw greenhouse-gas emissions overboard.” Horizon (September 6).
Blenkey, Nick. 2022. “Suction sails gain traction.” Marine Log (May 17).
Classical (but bonified) approaches
Wikipedia
– Rotor Ship
– Turbosail
– Windmill Ship
Mason, Hannah. 2022/2020. “Modernizing the mechanical rotor sail. Composites are key for Norsepower’s award-winning redesign of a century-old rotor sail for reducing carbon emissions on passenger and cargo ships.” Composites World (July 13)
Anemoine Marine. m/v Afros.
Trauthwein, Greg. 2021. “Sailing Cargo Ship ‘Ceiba’ Comes to Life in the ‘Jungle Shipyard’.” Marine Link Inc. (July 16).
Maritime Executive. 2021. “Large Sail Cargo Project Advances with Canadian Investment.” (November 12).
Timperley, Jocelyn. 2020. “The futuristic cargo ship made of wood.” BBC (Future Planet) (November 17).
New designs and technologies
–Kite
Taft, Molly. 2021. “Giant Kite Will Pull a Ship Across the Ocean Next Month.” Gizmodo (December 17).
-Oceanbird
Doyle, Alison. 2020. “The Oceanbird: Swedish firm develops largest wind-driven cargo shop.” World Economic Forum (December 17).
Blain, Loz. 2020. “Oceanbird’s huge 80-meter sails reduce cargo shipping emissions by 90%.” New Atlas (September 14).
-Inflatable sails
Lewis, Nell. 2021. “Giant inflatable sails could make shipping greener.” CNN (October 4).
Gallucci, Maria. 2021. “Michelin Puts Puffy Sails on Cargo Ships. The move could boost a vessel’s fuel efficiency by 20 percent.” IEEE Spectrum (June).
Green Car Congress. 2021. Michelin to ship tires on sail-powered cargo ships (February 14).
-BAR technologies
Adjin, Adis. 2022. “Mitsubishi bulker to debut BAR Technologies’ WindWings in 2023.” Splash247.com (June 21).
Actors
International Windship Association
Anonymous. 2022. “Historic Sailing Ship to Start First North Sea Cargo Service.” The Maritime Executive (January 21).
Hurford, Hannah. 2020. “Sail Cargo in the 21st Century.” Eco Clipper (June 9).
- Gould, Jennifer. 2022. “Eco-warriors ship wine, chocolate across the Atlantic on a sailboat.” New York Post (May 3)
- Hakirevic Prevljak, Naida. 2022. “Grain de Sail orders its next wind-powered freighter.” Offshore Energy (February 15)
- Figaro et AFP. 2021. « Arrivée à Nantes du cargo à voiles «Grain de Sail» après sa première transatlantique. » Le Figaro (February 17)
New Dawn Traders (Fair Trade by sail).
Hurford, Hannah. 2020. Sail Cargo in the 21st Century.
Air Cargo
Airports Council International. 2020. Air Cargo Guide
Information and Communication
Wikipedia
- History of Communication
- Electrical Telegraph
- Translatic Telegraphic Cable
- Submarine Communication Cable
- Communications Satellite
Intagliata, Christopher. 2018. “Drumming Beats Speech for Distant Communication.” Scientific American (April 25)
Conference Calls Unlimited. “The History of Communication Technology.”
Nam, Jong Kuk. 2016. “The Scarsella between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 1400s.” Mediterranean Review 9 (1): 53-75.
De Decker, Kris. 2007. « Email in the 18th Century: The optical telegraph.” Low-Tech Magazine.
Hearfield, Johh. The Chappe Semaphore Telegraph.
Madrigal, Alexis, C. 2010. “Before Underwater Internet Cables: The First Submarine Telegraph Line.” The Atlantic (November 30)
Witcher, T. R. 2020. “Perseverance pays off: The Transatlantic Telegraph Cable.” Civil Engineering Magazine (December 1)
Tranfield, M. Wynn. 2018. “Unspooling the Legacy of Submarine Cables.” DTTP 46 (3)
TeleGeography. “Submarine Cable Map.”
Miller, Alex. 2019. “Satellite Communications: A brief history from Sputnik to ViaSat-3.” ViaSat (October 7).
Connors, Joseph, James D. Gwartney and Hugo M. Montesinos. 2020. “The Transportation?Communication Revolution: 50 Years of Dramatic Change in Economic Development.” Cato Journal (Winter).
The following topics will not be discussed this academic year.
The Free Migration Debate
Powell, Ben. 2013. “Immigration Reform — The Time for Free Trade.” Huffington Post (June 16).
Powell, Ben. 2010. “An Economic Case for Immigration.” Library of Economics and Liberty (June 7).
Yglesias, Matthew. 2017 (update). “Immigration Makes America Great. Current policy could be improved, but American progress depends on welcoming foreigners.” Vox (September 3).
Raviv, Shaun. 2013. “If People Could Immigrate Anywhere, Would Poverty Be Eliminated? Some Economists are Pushing for “Open Borders”.” The Atlantic (April 26).
Raviv, Shaun. 2014. “Why ‘Brain Drain’ Can Actually Benefit African Countries. A New Study Reveals that the Farther African Migrants Move, the More they Increase Exports in their Home Countries.” The Atlantic (February 11).
Plants, Livestock and Diseases
Crosby, Alfred W. 2001. “The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds.” National Humanities Center.
Tatem, A.J., D.J. Rogers and S.I. Hay. 2006. “Global Transport Networks and Infectious Disease Spread.” Advances in Parasitology 62: 293-343.
Nunn, Nathan and Nancy Qian. 2010. “The Columbian Exchange: A History of Diseases, Food and Ideas.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 24 (2): 163-188.
Findlay, Ronald, and Kevin O’Rourke. 2006. “Mr Columbus’s Economic Bombshell.” BBC History, May, p. 41-43.
Price-Smith, Andrew. 2008. “Risky Trade: Infectious Disease in the Era of Global Trade.” Emerging Infectious Diseases 14 (10).
SUGGESTED LINKS
Transportation and Logistics
Overview
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul. 2020. The Geography of Transport Systems. The spatial organization of transportation and mobility. Routledge.
International Maritime Organization
International Labor Organization – Transport.
Wärtsilä Encyclopedia of Marine and Energy Technology
Chief Makoi – YouTube Channel.
One Ocean – Vessel Types Explained
Vessel Finder
International Windship Association
Historical Perspective
Good Roads Movement
Mystic Seaport Museum. 19th Century American Merchant Marine Digital Library
MeSEAum (Australia)
– Tug boats
National Museum of the Great Lakes – Great Lakes Museum Toledo, Ohio
World History Encyclopedia
Modern logistics: Trade Associations and Industry News
International Maritime Organization
Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping
Documentaries and TV Shows
Mighty Ships (videos)
– Emma Maersk
– MV Becrux
– MV Paul R. Tregurtha
– MV Fairplayer
– North Star
– Umiak 1
Communication
Time Toast – Telephone timeline
Migration
Open Borders: The Case
Powell, Ben. 2011. “Top Three Myths about Immigration.” LearnLiberty.org.
Powell, Ben. 2015. “Should We Let Them All In? How Immigration Helps the Economy.” LearnLiberty.org.
REQUIRED VIDEOS
LECTURE 4
First hour of The Battle of Ideas, the first episode of The Commanding Heights trilogy (based on the book of the same name). The video is freely available on the PBS Website of the TV series and on YouTube. Please check Episode 1 and look up the transcript menu to help you answer some of the questions.
Learn Liberty. 2013. “What do Prices Know that you Don’t?“
LECTURE 5
Second hour of thee first episode of The Battle of Ideas. The video is freely available on the PBS Website of the TV series and on YouTube. Please check Episode 1 and look up the transcript menu to help you answer some of the questions.
Econstories.tv
– Fear the Boom and the Bust (2010)
– Fight of the Century (2011)
Wall Street Journal. 2015. “Bernie Sanders Defines Democratic Socialism.” (November 19).
Velshi & Ruhle. 2018. “What is Democratic Socialism?” (June 28).
Mashable. 2016. “What is Democratic Socialism? | Mashable Explains.”
Bill Whittle. 2017. “Socialism is for Suckers: Venezuela.”
Bill Whittle. 2017. “2. Socialism.”
REQUIRED READINGS
LECTURE 4
Roberts, Russ. 2017. “The Three Blind Spots of Politics.” Medium (June 25).
Older debates
– Socialism and interventionism
Reed, Lawrence. 2021. “The Dark Side of Paradise: A Brief History of America’s Utopian Experiments in Communal Living.” FEE.org (June 13).
Heilbroner, Robert L. “Socialism.” The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Blinder, Alan S. “Keynesian Economics.” The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
MacKenzie, Richard. “Industrial Policy.” The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
– Free-markets
Rothbard, Murray N. “Free Market.” The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Boettke, Pete. “Austrian Economics.” The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Tupy, Marian L. 2016. “Is Hostility Really at the Root of Capitalism?” CapX (September 2).
Boudreaux, Don. 2020. “The Remarkable Blessings of the Price System.” AIER (May 18).
History
-Overview
Ebeling, Richard. 2018. “Karl Marx and Marxism at Two Hundred.” Fee.org (May 9).
Ridley, Matt. 2017. “A Century of Marxism-Leninism.” The Rational Optimist (January 3).
DeLong, J. Bradford. 1999. “Forests, Trees, and Intellectual Roots…” Review of James Scott’s Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed.
LECTURE 5
-Socialist/interventionist perspective
George, Susan. 1999. “A Short History of Neoliberalism.” Conference on Economic Sovereignty in a Globalising World, March 24-26.
Metcalf, Stephen. 2017. “Neoliberalism: The Idea that Swallowed the World.” The Guardian (August 18).
Jonathan D. Ostry, Jonathan D., Prakash Loungani, and Davide Furceri. 2016. “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” Finance & Development 53 (2): 38-41.
Clune, Michael. W. 2013. “When Neoliberalism Exploded. Historian Daniel Steadman Jones traces the origins of the right’s fascination with privatization and deregulation.” Salon (March 9).
Lind, Michael. 2022. “The Idiocy of Econ 101.” Compact (June 21).
-Free-market/liberalization perspective
Gregg, Samuel. 2018. “Miracle Men: How Market Liberals Saved Germany from Economic Catastrophe.” Law and Liberty (June 20).
Pirie, Madsen. “Privatization.” The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Poole, Robert W. “Privatization” Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, 2nd edition.
O’Sullivan, John. 2014. “Today’s Tories have forgotten the Need for Hard Thinking.” The Telegraph (June 15).
Tupy, Marian L. 2017. “The Man Behind the Hong Kong Miracle.” CapX (August 18).
Edwards, Lee. 2020. “The Case for Capitalism.” Law & Liberty (Mary 19).
Phelan, John. 2019. “The Three Phases of Socialism.” Fee.org (May 8).
Zitelman, Rainer. 2019. “Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies.” Fee.org (August 31).
Clemens, Jason and Niels Veldhuis. 2022. “It’s reasonable to call Trudeau a modern-day socialist.” Toronto Sun (April 13).
Neo-Fascism
Wess, Kai and Jeffrey Tucker.2017. “It’s Not Just Socialists We Need to Worry About. FEE’s Jeffrey Tucker speaks about his latest book and the pervasive threat to liberty that is right-wing collectivism. on right-wing collectivism.” Fee.org (December 14).
SUGGESTED READINGS
Guide to the literature
Econlib Guides – College Economic Topics
THINKERS
Robert Owen
Gunderman, Richard. 2021. “The Failure of a Socialist Dreamer.” Law and Liberty (may 14).
Claude Henri de Rouvroy Comte de Saint-Simon
Abidor, Mitchell. 2021. “Socialism Without Antisemitism.” Tablet (October 15).
Karl Marx
Biography of Karl Marx. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Williamson, Kevin D. 2020. “The Celestial Afterlife of Karl Marx.” National Review (August 6).
Marx Engels Selected Works (Marxists.org).
Singh, Manvir. 2022. “The idea of primitive communism is as seductive as it is wrong.” Aeon (April 19).
Singh, Manvir. 2022. “The idea of primitive communism is as seductive as it is wrong.” Aeon (April 19).
Eugene Richter
Caplan, Bryan. 2016. “The Dystopian Novel that Foresaw the Nightmares of Socialism.” Learn Liberty (October 27).
Eugene Debs
Debs, Eugene V. 1904. Unionism and Socialism: A Plea for Both. Standard Publishing Co.
Ludwig von Mises
Biography of Ludwig Edler Von Mises. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Butler, Eamonn. 2010. Ludwig von Mises – A Primer. London: IEA.
Horwitz, Steven. 2012. “On Human Action. We owe a debt to Ludwig von Mises.” The Freeman (September 13).
An Introduction to the Major Writings of Ludwig von Mises (Online Library of Liberty – Liberty Fund).
Ludwig von Mises books (Mises Institute).
Mises, Ludwig von. 1920. “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.”
Mises, Ludwig von. 1951/1922. Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis. Yale University Press.
Boettke, Peter J. 2016. “The Significance of Mises’s “Socialism’.” Fee.org (September 1).
Boudreaux, Donald J. 2021. “The Inevitable Failure of Socialism.” AIER (September 18).
John Maynard Keynes
Biography of John Maynard Keynes. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Mises, Ludwig Edler von. 1951. “The Symptomatic Keynes.” The Freeman, June 18.
Judis, John B. 2009. “A Man for All Seasons – The misunderstood John Maynard Keynes.” The New Republic, February 04.
Keynes, John. 1920. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Harcourt, Brace, and Howe.
Judis, John B. 2009. “A Man for All Seasons – The misunderstood John Maynard Keynes.” The New Republic, February 04.
Selgin, George. 2022. “The New Deal and Recovery, Part 15: The Keynesian Myth.” Cato at Liberty (March 16).
Wilhelm Röpke
Ebeling, Richard. 2016. “Wilhelm Röpke: The Economist Who Stood Up to Hitler.” Future of Freedom Foundation (March 2).
Gregg, Samuel. 2022. “Wilhelm Röpke’s Civilization of Liberty.” Law and Liberty (January 22).
Gregg, Samuel. 2023. When a Classical Liberal Confronted Nazi Terror Law & Liberty (January 30).
Friedrich Hayek
Biography of Friedrich August Hayek. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Hayek, Friedrich. 2001/1945. The Reader’s Digest Condensed Version of the Road to Serfdom. London: Institute of Economic Affairs.
Boudreaux, Donald J. 2021. “The Enduring Relevance of Mises and Hayek’s Critique of Socialism.” AIER (September 25).
Gregg, Samuel. 2023. “The Life of an Unrepentant Old Whig.” Law and Liberty (January 10).
Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics
FriedmanFacts.com
“The Chicago School of Economics” on the History of Economic Thought Website.
Biography of Milton Friedman. The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Ebeling, Richard M., and Sheldon Richman. “Milton Friedman (1912-2006).” The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, December 2006, Vol. 56 No. 10.
“Free Markets and the End of History.” Interview with Milton Friedman, New Perspectives Quarterly, Volume 23 (1) Winter 2006.
Sahlins, Marshall. 2008. “Institute Will Give the U. of Chicago a Bad Name.” Chronicle.com, August 18.
Sorman, Guy. 2008. “Cheers for Chile’s Chicago Boys.” City Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (Winter).
Sorman, Guy. 2007. “The Market Revolution.” City Journal, August 24.
Warsh, David. 2008. “The Chicago School (and the Russert Wing).” Economic Principals, June 22.
–. 2008. “University of Chicago Faculty Letter on The Milton Friedman Institute.” naomiklein.org, June 6.
Economist Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose on the web (also on Idea Channel TV)
Interviews on the Charlie Rose Show: Milton Friedman (26-12-2005).
Postmodernism and Intersectionality
Hicks, Stephen C. 2004. Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Scholargy Publishing.
Ebeling, Richard M. 2018. “Collectivism’s Progress: From Marxism to Race and Gender Intersectionality.” FFF Articles (March 19).
Philipp, Joshua. 2018 (update). “Jordan Peterson Exposes the Postmodernist Agenda. Communist principles in postmodernism were spread under the guise of identity politics.” The Epoch Times (June 4).
Thomas Piketty
—. 2014. “Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”, Summarised in Four Paragraphs.” The Economist Explains (May 4).
McCloskey, Deirdre. 2015. “How Piketty Misses the Point.” Cato Policy Report (July/August).
McManus, Matt. 2020. “Thomas Piketty’s “Capitalism and Ideology.” Book Review.” Areo (May 14).
Comments
Critics of free-market economics
Solow, Robert M. 2012. “Hayek, Friedman, and the Illusions of Conservative Economics.” The New Republic, November 16 (comments on this piece by Tyler Cowen).
Larner, Jesse. 2008. “Who’s Afraid of Friedrich Hayek? The Obvious Truths and Mystical Fallacies of a Hero of the Right.” Dissent Magazine, Winter.
Supporters of free-markets
Carlton, Chris. 2021. “How the Progressives Conquered Corporate America.” Mises Wire (February 5).
Jones, Daniel G. 2017. “Capitalism’s Gotta Go.” American Thinker (December 27).
Perry, Mark J. 2018. “‘Why Socialism Failed: A 2018 Update,’ Part I.” AEIdeas (August 21).
Mitchell, Dan. 2016. “Free Markets and Small Government vs. Redistributionism and State Planning.” International Liberty (July 19).
Mitchell, Dan. 2018. “Most Socialists Can’t Even Define Their Own Ideology. Claims that “socialism is freedom” sound bizarre. Because they are.” Fee.org (September 21).
Mitchell, Dan. 2019. “The Battle Isn’t Right vs. Left. It’s Statism vs. Individualism – Foundation for Economic Education” FEE.org (April 6)
Mitchell, Dan. 2019. Nazis, Communists, Fascists, Socialists, and other Flavors of Collectivism and Authoritarianism (March 26)
Gregg, Samuel. 2021. “Industrial Policy Mythology Confronts Economic Reality .” Law and Liberty (September 3).
Winston, Alexander. 1971. “Utopia: Dream into Nightmare.” The William Feather Magazine (November).
Niemietz, Kristian. 2017. “Socialism – not Oil Prices – is to Blame for Venezuela’s Woes.” CapX (August 16).
Ebeling, Richard M. “Paul Leroy-Beaulieu: A Warning Voice About the Socialist Tragedy to Come.” Future of Freedom Foundation (January 29).
Substantial Pieces
Berger, Suzanne. 2000. “Globalization and Politics.” Annual Review of Political Science 3: 43-62.
Milner, Helen V. 1999. “The Political Economy of International Trade.” Annual Review of Political Science 2: 91-114.
Places and Movements
– Vienna
—. 2016. “City of the Century: How Vienna Produced Ideas that Shaped the West.” The Economist (December 24).
Dekker, Irwin. 2016. “How Viennese Culture Shaped Austrian Economics.” Fee.org (July 31).
– Mont Pelerin Society
Hoover Institution. 2020. The Mont Pelerin Society. From the Past to the Future: Ideas and Actions for a Free Society.
Ebeling, Richard M. 2022. “In the Beginning: The Mont Pelerin Society, 1947.” Future of Freedom Foundation (May 1).
– Russia/Soviet Union
Rassin, Boris. 2022. “The seductive beauty of classroom socialism is a sham—Lessons from a former Soviet citizen.” The Hub (February 23).
Spliet, Bas. 2022. “Socialist Economies Are Impossible: Lessons from Russia, 1917–22.” Mises Wire (February 15).
Ebeling, Richard M. 2021. “Socialism-in-Practice Was a Nightmare, Not Utopia.” AIER (February 23).
Young, Cathy. 2021. “Yes, It Was An ‘Evil Empire.’ Nearly every form of Soviet nostalgia gets the facts wrong.” Reason (2021).
– United States
Flynn, Daniel J. 2008. “The Right Gifts.” City Journal, 12 December.
– United Kingdom
Pirie, Madsen. 2013. “Ten Myths about Margaret Thatcher.” Adamd Smith Institute (April 15).
Reed, Lawrence R. 2020. “Margaret Thatcher on Socialism: 20 of Her Best Quotes.” Fee.org (February 8).
– Germany
Henderson, David R. “The German Economic Miracle.” The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Reed, Lawrence W. 2015. “Ludwig Erhard: Architect of a Miracle.” Fee.org (May 7).
Ebeling, Richard. M. 2016. “Wilhelm Röpke: The Economist Who Stood Up to Hitler.” Future of Freedom Foundation (March 2).
Innset. Ola. 2017. Reinventing Liberalism Early Neoliberalism in Context, 1920 – 1947. European University Institute (PhD Thesis).
– Latin America
Piñera, José. 2003. “How Chile was Saved.” The Objectivist Center, September 1.
Kaiser, Axel. 2020. “The Fall of Chile.” Cato Journal (Fall).
Thomson, Andrés Figueredo. 2021. “How Socialism Wiped Out Venezuela’s Spectacular Oil Wealth. Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves. It’s out of gasoline.” Reason (February 1).
– Asia
Powell, Benjamin. 2004. “State Development Planning: Did it Create an East Asian Miracle?” Independent Institute, Septermber 28.
– Fascism
Cohen, Lynne. 2022. “Left-Wing Fascism and its War Against Conservatives.” C2C (January 5).
Recent History
– World Events
Hammes, David and Douglas Wills, “Black Gold: The End of Bretton Woods and the Oil-Price Shocks of the 1970s.” The Independent Review 9 (Spring 2005): 501-11.
Lasswell, Mark. 2005. “Investing in Ideas – How John Olin and William Simon helped create the conservative counterintelligentsia.” The Wall Street Journal, December 28.
– Wage and Price Controls
Henderson, David. 2023. “Saying No (Again) To Wage and Price Controls. Recent commentary threatens to revive a discredited idea.” Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution) (February 2).
Recent authors and ideological debates
Naomi Klein
—. 2008. “Naomi Klein: ‘We can’t lose this moment’” Rabble.ca (December 12).
– Klein’s writings
Journalist and activist Naomi Klein’s website
“The Shock Doctrine.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Kein, Naomi. 2008. “One Year After the Publication of The Shock Doctrine, A Response to the Attacks.” NaomiKlein.org, September 2.
Klein, Naomi. 2008. “Why the Right Loves a Disaster.” Naomiklein.org (January 27).
– Interviews
Renegade Pictures / Revolution Films. 2009. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. (Video)
Interviews on the Charlie Rose Show: Naomi Klein (02-01-2008).
– Reviews of Klein’s writings
Chait, Jonathan. 2008. “Dead Left.” The New Republic, July 30.
MacFarquhar, Larissa. 2008. “Outside Agitator – Naomi Klein and the New New Left.” The New Yorker, December 8.
Stromberg, Joseph. 2008. “Review of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein.” The Freeman, vol. 58, no. 8 (October): 43-44.
– Critics
Boaz, David. 2009. “Obama’s shock doctrine – On the economy, Obama is trying to scare the American people in order to ram through a progressive agenda.” guardian.co.uk, February 12.
Carden, Art. forthcoming. 2009. “Shock and Awe: Institutional Change, Neoliberalism, and Disaster Capitalism.” Journal of Lutheran Ethics 9 (6).
Heath, Joseph. 2014. “Bad Arguments against Capitalism, vol. 1.” In Due Course (November 22).
Brennan, Jason. 2011. “Dear Left: Corporatism Is Your Fault.” Bleeding Heart Libertarians (November 29).
Naomi Klein Vs Johan Norberg
Kein, Naomi. 2008. “One Year After the Publication of The Shock Doctrine, A Response to the Attacks.” NaomiKlein.org, September 2.
“Johan Norberg Vs. Naomi Klein and The Shock Doctrine.” Reason TV, September 29, 2008.
Boaz, David. 2008. “Johan Norberg vs. Naomi Klein, Round 3.” Cato-at-liberty, September 5.
Norberg, Johan. 2008. “Defaming Milton Friedman.” Reason Online, October.
Norberg, Johan. 2008. “The Klein Doctrine – The Rise of Disaster Polemics.” Cato Institute Briefing Papers, No. 102, May 14.
Norberg, Johan. 2008. “Three Days after Klein’s Response, Another Attack.” Cato.org (September 4).
– On Democratic Socialism
Supporters
Meyerson, Harold. 2019. “Why Michael Harrington Matters.” Jacobin (July 31).
Schwartz, Joseph and Jason Schulman. 2012. “Toward Freedom: Democratic Socialist Theory and Practice.” DSA (December 21).
Democratic Socialists of America. “What is Democratic Socialism?“
Gude, Shawn. 2018. “Democratic Socialism Is About Democracy.” Jacobin (July 25).
Day, Meagan. 2018. “Democratic Socialism, Explained by a Democratic Socialist. It’s not just New Deal Liberalism.” Vox (August 1).
Haltiwanger, John. 2020. “Here’s the Difference Between a ‘Socialist’ and a ‘Democratic Socialist’.” Business Insider (June 28).
Critics
Ingemarson, Anders. 2018. “How ‘Democratic Socialism’ Wreaked Havoc On My Native Sweden.” The Federalist (September 5).
Anderson, William L. 2018. “The Key Word in ‘Democratic Socialism’ is ‘Socialism’.” Mises Wire (August 8).
Harwood Economic Review, Volume 2, Issue 3 (Fall 2018) (Socialism Issue).
Mueller, Antony. 2018. “4 Reasons Why Socialism Fails.” Mises Wire (September 10).
Baker, Hunter. 2019. “9 Big Questions About Democratic Socialism.” Fee.org (February 10).
Kovnick, Michael (Free the People)
- Democratic Socialism Is Nothing New, and Nothing Gentle (freethepeople.org) (March 8, 2021)
- Democratic Socialism Is Nothing New—Part 2: Healthcare (freethepeople.org) (March 29, 2021)
- Democratic Socialism Is Nothing New—Part 3: Central Planning (freethepeople.org) (April 30, 2021)
- Democratic Socialism Is Nothing New—Part 4: Immigration (freethepeople.org) (May 26, 2021)
SUGGESTED LINKS
Liberty.me Library – Free the People
The History of Economic Thought Website.
McMaster Archive of the History of Economic Thought.
The Road to Serfdom, the movie.
Professor Stefan Kolev’s (University of Applied Sciences Zwickau) Google Page (History of Thought – ordoliberalism, Mont Pelerin Society and related topics).
Hamowy, Ronald (ed.). 2008. The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Cato Institute and SAGE.
Dr. Kristian Niemietz: The Human Progress Podcast Ep. 26 Transcript – HumanProgress
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein “The Shock Doctrine” & “No Logo” interview
–Milton Friedman debates Naomi Klein
Milton Friedman Debates Naomi Klein
Milton Friedman Debates Naomi Klein Part 2
Taylor & Francis freely available research on Millenium Development Goals.
SUGGESTED VIDEOS
- Supplement to The Commanding Heights
“Jerusalem, the Anthem, with simultaneous lyrics.”
F.A. Hayek Interviewed By John O’Sullivan
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation channel
Capitalism Vs Communism (old cartoon)
Cato Institute Policy Forum. 2016. “Socialism and Human Nature” (September 14)
- Naomi Klein vs Johan Norberg
2009. The Shock Doctrine (Watch the video documentary here)
Globalisation is Good by Johan Norberg (2003) (Watch it here)
The Nation. 2007. “Naomi Klein: Disaster Capitalism.”
PBS Foreign Exchange. 2008. “The Real News: Naomi Klein.”
Reason TV. 2008. “Johan Norberg Vs Naomi Klein and the Shock Doctrine.”