Enemy of the State Nov 17, 2009
He took special care in describing the ratchet effect once a crisis has passed state power usually recedes again, but it rarely returns to its original levels; thus each emergency leaves the scope of government at least a little wider than before. Just as importantly, Higgs paid close attention to the role of ideology in nourishing Leviathan, a factor often dismissed out of hand by economists for whom what cannot be quantified does not exist. (The American Conservative)
The GOP Is Adrift Oct 24, 2009
The constant ratchet effect this has ensures that no new scheme or proposed spending can ever be eliminated without tremendous effort and expenditure of political capital, and the end result is to make the state larger, more activist and an entity with its own set of interests increasingly divorced from the people it governs. Looking at some larger questions, I find the missile defense quarrel to be a good example for thinking about the place of dissident conservatives in contemporary debates. (The American Conservative)
Will Readers Ever Pay For Online News? Sep 14, 2009
But more worrisome, prices dropped as well with a "ratchet effect" that will make it difficult for prices to return to the pre-crisis level. Google bears some responsibility in this state of affairs: it forced a large chunk of the advertising market to shift to text ads with the G-model built on large volumes and low per unit cost. (CBS News)
America's unjust sex laws Aug 9, 2009
They have been driven by a ratchet effect. Individual American politicians have great latitude to propose new laws. (The Economist)
Sex laws: Unjust and ineffective Aug 7, 2009
This creates a ratchet effect. Every lawmaker who wants to sound tough on sex offenders has to propose a law tougher than the one enacted by the last politician who wanted to sound tough on sex offenders. (The Economist)
The Great Green 'TARP' Aug 3, 2009
Nova also perceives a ratchet effect , whereby pro-AGW (anthropogenic -- man-made -- global warming) theory is reported, repeated, trumpeted and asserted while anti-AGW findings, often the work of unfunded, retired scientists, lie unstudied, ignored and delayed. The SPPI report shows how it is largely left to unfunded bloggers and scientists to expose major errors like that perpetrated by Michael Mann s now infamous and discredited Hockey Stick Graph. (Human Events Online)
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EDITORIAL ROUNDUP: UC's lavish pay; land sale : North County Times - Californian 05-16-2009 (North County Times)
Editorial: UC should rein in its lavish paydays May 13, 2009
Call it a supersized ratchet effect. Even during a major economic downturn and state budget crisis, executive compensation at the University of California and other public university systems only goes up. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
America, The World Is Watching May 4, 2009
What Thatcher s mentor, Sir Keith Joseph, in the 1970s described as the ratchet effect works when each new bout of government intervention creates a momentum for more of it. Someone has to be bold enough to force back the ratchet. (Human Events Online)
