Page 17 - John Stuart Mill News Today

The qualitative indicators of development as conceived by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are unique. Monitoring development over time is important in order to improve the lifestyles of the common people.

I am constantly struck by the economic ignorance dressed up as expertise. It pours forth from Treasury, from the Reserve Bank and, of course, from the economics commentariat. What all that suggests is that the ghost of John Maynard Keynes remains hard at work turning logic on its head

Mark Alexander, writing at the Patriot Post penned these words

Political parties in particular need to preserve the democratic structures, which are critical to their own survival.

Our crepuscular daily links

Poverty and desperation that defy description in this most engrossing of books.

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC...

If you live in a large county in Texas, there's a chance that someone is keeping an eye on your voting choices and can see your ballot.

ANDREWS MCMEEL ALMANAC...

In the meticulously researched book, “Politicizing the Bible,” research historians Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker dig deep into the Middle Ages and Renaissance to show that Christendom’s long term apostasy began with the appropriation, deconstruction and paganization of scripture by politically motivated interpreters. Among them were early Popes, Machiavelli, Marsilio of Padua, Henry VIII, Thomas Hobbes, and Descartes and Spinoza, who sought an empire of science.