While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Peter J. Boettke.
After Estonia ended socialist rule and transitioned back to a market democracy, Estonians enjoyed vast improvements in their incomes, living standards and other key measures of prosperity. After the second World War, Estonia was annexed to the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Estonia began a dramatic transformation back to a market democracy. It reduced and prioritized...
After the Soviet Union invaded Estonia and imposed socialism, living standards in Estonia plummeted—particularly compared to neighbouring Finland. Estonia and Finland share much in common including geography and natural resources. And the two countries might have shared the same economic fate. But after the Second World War, while Finland continued to have a modestly market-oriented economy, Estonia was absorbed by...