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Category Archives: Political reforms
Lawrence Solomon: Why Ukraine should break up
(March 6, 2014) Crimea will have fewer doubts about leaving Ukraine than Russia will have about accepting it. Continue reading
Lawrence Solomon: Russia’s losers
(February 6, 2014) Unlike Sochi, a natural beauty, Russia’s monotowns will drag the country down for decades. Continue reading
Posted in Political reforms
Tagged central planning, free markets, innovation, monocities, monotowns, Putin, Russia, Skolkovo, Sochi
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Lawrence Solomon: Divide Libya into its tribal parts
(October 28, 2011) Who should get Libya’s fabulous oil and gas wealth, an amount that could be equivalent to several million dollars per Libyan? Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Nation states, Political reforms
Tagged Arab Spring, civil war, Energy, Gaddafi, Lawrence Solomon, libya, Muslim Brotherhood, NATO, Oil, Sharia, tribal, UN
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Lawrence Solomon: It’s in our interest to break Syria into pieces
If Assad is given the boot, the West should take charge and break it up. Continue reading
Posted in Nation states, Political reforms
Tagged Assad, Bashar al-Assad, Islam, Kurds, Lawrence Solomon, middle east, Middle East politics, Syria, Syria protests
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The Politics of Alternative Energy (3): The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
(July 4, 2011) “If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created”. These words of economist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek’s today resonate loudly in the carbon “idea” – that the West should fast-track a low-carbon economy no matter what the socio-economic cost. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy, Natural Resources, Political reforms, Taxation, Utilities
Tagged carbon, carbon emission targets, carbon emissions, carbon reduction goals, climate, CO2 issues, cost issues, decarbonisation, domestic fuel bills, fossil fuel energy, fuel poverty, green taxes, Lawrence Solomon, lower-carbon economy, Michael J. Economides, Peter C. Glover, renewable energy, Sam Laidlaw, utility cost, wind farms
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