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Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
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Nobel Prize winning author, anti-Communist activist and survivor of Soviet work camps, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is best known for his works A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago. A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, published in the West in 1968, told the story of daily life as a prisoner in a Soviet work camp. The Gulag Archipelago, published in three volumes, is a more comprehensive account of the Soviet prison-labor system. Solzenhitsyn was a physicist and teacher before he began writing and he fought for the Soviet army in World War II, rising to the rank of artillery captain, After the war, authorities discovered letters he had written to a friend criticizing Stalin, and he was sentenced to a work camp. After A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published, Solzhenitsyn was exiled to southern Kazakhstan. Eventually allowed to return to Moscow, he was exiled once again, this time to West Germany, and eventually the United States, after A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the west. He did not return to Moscow until the 1994, where he lives today.
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Bjorn Lomborg |
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Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish political scientist, statistician, professor and former member of the Green movement, is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist. In the book, he counters the myths perpetuated by environmentalists, scientists, and activists concerning topics such as global warming, animal extinction, and pollution. Originally Dr. Lomborg intended for his book to refute critics of the environmentalist movement, but as he researched, found they were correct. After painstaking analysis, Dr. Lomborg found that contrary to alarmist activists, the global environment is actually improving. A review of the book by the Washington Post exclaimed "The Skeptical Environmentalist is the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in 1962. It's a magnificent achievement."
Click here to read the first chapter of The Skeptical Environmentalist. |
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Fareed Zakaria (1964- ) |
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Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria has been described as “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.” A graduate of Yale with a Ph.D. from Harvard in International Relations, he is the author of several acclaimed books, including, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy At Home and Abroad, which the New York Times Book Review described as an “updated version of de Tocqueville,” as it theorizes that unregulated democracy undermines the rule of law. His other works include From Wealth to Power, which investigates the United State’s role in the international community. In addition, he is a respected commentator on This Week and has appeared on many other political talk shows, including The McLaughlin Group and Firing Line. Prior to joining the staff at Newsweek, Zakaria was the youngest-ever managing editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, the country’s most respected foreign policy journal.
To learn more about Fareed Zakaria:
http://www.fareedzakaria.com
http://www.theglobalist.com/DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3265
To read his most recent column:
http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/articles.html |
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Friedrich Augustus von Hayek |
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"Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts." - F. A. Hayek.
Friedrich Augustus von Hayek's seminal works, The Road to Serfdom (1944) and The Constitution of Liberty (1959) mark the turning point of 20th Century economic and political thought by focusing on the primacy of individuals, thus breaking from collectivized statist governments. In 1974 F. A. Hayek, along with Gunnar Myrdal, won the Nobel Peace Prize for Economic Science for his, "...pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." 2004 marks the 60th anniversary of "The Road to Serfdom."
Please read a review of Hayek's Law, Legislation and Liberty: Vol. 1 and this web page devoted solely to his work. |
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George B. N. Ayittey |
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Economist George Ayittey has written five books, published dozens of articles, and lectured extensively on the problems confounding Africa’s development. A native of Ghana, Dr. Ayittey is the Distinguished Economist in Residence at American University and President of the Free Africa Foundation. His most famous works include the books “Africa Unchained” and “Africa in Chaos,” as well as the article “Why Africa is Poor.” Dr. Ayittey advocates free-market, rule of law solutions to Africa’s problems, and often criticizes organizations such as the United Nations for throwing money at problems that requires changes in leadership and policy. An expert on the AIDS crisis facing the continent, Dr. Ayittey calls upon Africa’s leaders to work with NGOs and develop realistic solutions to the problem. In the article “Only So Much Outsiders Can Do” he argues that change must come from within Africa, and responsible leadership is the first step. He is a frequent contributor to television news as well, and has appeared on Nightline, C-Span and CNN, among several others.
Dr. Ayittey’s website at American University
About Dr. Ayittey
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Africa Needs Tough Love
Only So Much Outsiders Can Do
Online Articles about Globalization
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Gurcharan Das |
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Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age is a leading spokesman of the economic revolution India is currently experiencing. The former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India is now a widely read columnist for the Times of India, one of the country’s leading newspapers, where he writes about many aspects of Indian life, from the economy to education. In India Unbound, Mr. Das uses his personal life as a backdrop as he explains how the failed socialist policies of Jawaharal Nehru led to catastrophic statism, under which millions starved, economic growth was stagnant, and foreign investment contributed to a minimal amount of the Indian economy. Since the 1991 reforms, the book argues, life in India has improved, and is only getting better, as evidenced by the positive effects of outsourcing and foreign investment. The book was met with rave reviews from such wide-ranging sources as the New York Times Book Review to the Wall Street Journal to the Indian Express. In addition to his career as a columnist, Mr. Das is a novelist, playwright, and venture capitalist.
To learn more about Gurcharan Das:
http://www.ccsindia.org/people_gd_reviews.htm
For more information about India Inbound:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=0385720742
To read some of Mr. Das's other writings:
http://www.ccsindia.org/people_gd_sunday.htm
http://www.ccsindia.org/people_gd_sunday2.htm |
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Hernando de Soto |
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| "In most countries, including my own, the idea is we the government will tell you what is good for you. In this case, the responsibility of carrying out the administration has been thrown at the people themselves. That trust in people is essentially what characterizes Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries going from being elite-led nations to those of nations that have grass-root economies." - Hernando De Soto.
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is the recipient of the Cato Institute's 2004 Friedman Prize for his work exploring the link between poverty and property rights in underdeveloped states. World leaders, academics, and journalists have praised his book The Mystery of Capital, which describes the extralegal systems of economic transaction created by citizens in countries without a strong system of property rights. De Soto's think tank the Institute for Liberty and Democracy seeks to implement reforms that give citizens of poor countries the ability to operate in a free enterprise system. The Economist has praised the ILD as one of the most important think tanks in the world, and the institute has implemented reforms throughout the former Soviet Union, as well as in Egypt and Peru.
To read an excerpt from The Mystery of Capital, click here. |
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