A book review of Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart.

This article discusses unintended consequences in relation to regulations and automobile safety laws.

This article reviews and analyzes the foreign aid delivered to the world’s top living dictators. Also considered is why aid to these dictators fails to generate change for the better. At least rhetorically, the governments of developed countries provide aid to poor countries to facilitate development and movement toward liberal institutions that protect basic rights. Despite these good intentions, aid has failed to generate sustainable change in the countries that the world’s worst dictators rule.

This paper investigates the political economy of FEMA’s post-9/11 merger with the Department of Homeland Security.

Despite rhetoric supporting liberal values and institutions, the governments of developed countries provide continued development and military assistance to the world's worst dictators. 

The fatal conceit is the assumption the world can be shaped according to human desires.  With the collapse of socialism, central planning has been discredited as a viable means of economic organization.  However, the fatal conceit of central planning continues through foreign interventions in the form of foreign aid and foreign military interventions.