system of political finance

I really get a kick out of our politicians when they try to make predictions of any sort. They keep trying and they keep getting them wrong but they continue to show the fortitude to go on with more fruitless predictions. Before reviewing the latest...

During the Nationalist Party, or white government, days in South Africa, the only time the country made it into the international newspapers was when apartheid based atrocities and anti-apartheid campaigns were reported. It used to annoy the government...

Western historical experience with taxation has been that a government's increased financial dependency on tax revenues may generate governance benefits, because it encourages the accountability of the state to its citizens. Explicit or implicit agreement...

Environmental deficiencies, not abundances, explain the development of irrigation technologies - and irrigation permitted the emergence of urban civilization. One anthropologist states, "the remarkable truth concerning the origins of sophisticated agricultural...