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Israel Still Doesn’t Get Economy
Originally published 29 Apr 2008 in
The New York Sun
Why are Israel elites, especially the chattering classes in the press and the academy and such, and also those in business, so hostile to capitalism?
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What’s ‘public’ about their broadcasting?
Originally published 22 Jan 2008 in
The Jerusalem Post
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"You Decide": Promo for IBA TV show on tunes from the '60s
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Our “public channel,” funded by a compulsive tax, does not need to be pluralistic or even-handed. Like other public institutions that lack well-defined ownership, Channel 1 has consequently been taken over by bureaucrats and by undemocratic workers’ unions.
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Getting beyond the teachers’ strike
Originally published 17 Oct 2007 in
The Jerusalem Post
As long as education remains a government monopoly, it is bound to function like all other government monopolies, where union bosses fill the vacuum that lack of defined ownership creates, and monopoly power allows them to blackmail the public.
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One on One: Market values
Originally published 29 Mar 2007 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Daniel Doron, ICSEP President
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ICSEP President Daniel Doron is interviewed by fellow Jerusalem Post contributor Ruthie Blum. One quip: “The wages of labor are a function of supply and demand, not of the size of the mustache of a union leader.”
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Fix the system, and morality will follow
Originally published 22 Mar 2007 in
The Jerusalem Post
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Money, money, money (royalty-free image via stock.xchng)
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A government that interferes in everything is a disorganized government, and disorganization provides great opportunities for corruption. This “norm” for doing business has been copied by the powerful, well-connected concerns that habitually win huge government contracts by underbidding their competitors then get the government to change the terms in their favor, costing taxpayers billions in over-payments.
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