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Hi-tech prospects and pitfalls
Originally published 10 Jan 2010 in The Jerusalem Post

Individual initiative and freedom are essential for creativity—in hi-tech as in all other spheres.

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Spinners and cheaters
Originally published 22 Dec 2008 in The Jerusalem Post

Why not exploit the crisis to destroy what little freedom Netanyahu’s reforms brought to the economy? Why care if the country will lose its only hope of deliverance from the economic retardation caused by our statist heritage?

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Precipitating the next collapse
Originally published 3 Dec 2008 in The Jerusalem Post

Focusing on a putative pension crisis distracts our attention from the real serious crisis that a worldwide recession is bound to create here.

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The panic-mongers’ one-note chorus
Originally published 22 Oct 2008 in The Jerusalem Post

The country, the pundits conclude, must return to the good old days of “social democracy.”

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Israel still doesn’t get economy
Originally published 29 Apr 2008 in The New York Sun

Israel’s elites—especially the chattering classes in the press and the academy—are hostile to capitalism because our universities’ social sciences and liberal arts departments are dominated by post-modernist and neo-Marxist professors.

Ideas matter. Hostility to capitalism exacts a great price from the Israeli economy and from its hapless workers.

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