Writing during the 2005 Vancouver truckers’ strike, I examine how collective action can impose uncompensated costs on businesses and people outside the dispute.

I examine how India’s state-owned power plants, coal companies, railways, and industries create environmental damage while transferring their costs throughout the economy.

I examine how India’s contradictory and selectively enforced regulations reward corruption, marginalize conscientious entrepreneurs, and obstruct economic development.

Using the experience of an importer dealing with Indian customs, I examine how greater state control creates more opportunities for obstruction, extortion, and corruption.

I contrast overt racial prejudice with the subtler condescension of those who deny cultural problems and assume minorities cannot succeed without special treatment.

I examine the Council of Canadians’ campaigns against trade and corporate power, questioning their evidence, moral assumptions, and claim to represent civil society.

In this Marketing Mastermind article, I examine corporate social responsibility and the distance between what businesses preach and how they actually behave.

Drawing on my experiences in Lithuania before and after the Soviet collapse, I examine its transformation and the moral case for capitalism.

I examine affirmative action, political correctness, and the assumption that discrimination qualifies as racism only when its victim is non-white.

In this Marketing Mastermind article, I argue that genuine branding must arise from honest products, customer education, organisational values, and real value creation.