recent documentsMedia & Policy Papers
- Making medicines affordable: the role of innovation, competition and taxation (pdf/47kb)
by Noy Oplas - The Retreat of High Income Tax Rate Philosophy in the World (pdf/17kb)
by Noy Oplas
Policy and Discussion Papers
Climate Alarmism
- Essays on Climate Alarmism
- Economics, Climate and El Nino: Dispose myths to properly allocate resources
- Climate alarmism and Copenhagen
- News reports, Mr. Oplas' paper on "Global cooling and public education"
- Warming Lies
- Warming time out amidst climate hysteria
- Global cooling and public education
- Man-made warming: is it the truth?
- Some news reports on global cooling
- Climate change "morality"
- Global cooling vs, Global money and power
- Global cooling reality vs Global warming politics
- Cold front vs Hot politics of April
- The Sun vs CO2: What drives global temperature changes?
- Climate change alarmism: bureaucratism vs. adaptation
Drug Price Control
- Access to medicines through politics: A preliminary assessment of the drug price control policy in the Philippines
- Access to medicines via competition, not protectionism and price regulation
- Essays on Politicized Drug Pricing, Part 2
- Essays on Politicized Drug Pricing, Part 1
- Unintentional predatory pricing via government price control
- Position paper on drug price control
- Voluntary price reduction vs. mad rush for drug price control
Small Government
- Reflections of a former Marxist on property and property rights
- Essays on Political Philosophy, Part 2
- Improving access to good health care
- Wastes in government health care programs
- Health insurance and government failure
- Property Rights and Lefts
- Essays on Political Philosophy
- Power and Foreign Policy
- Letter to Sec. Recto re Goverment Rationalization Plan
- Factor mobility and economic geography
- ICT in the Philippines: Growth Amidst Mixed Government Intervention
- Local Goverment and Civil Society seminar
- Global meetings for more global restrictions
- "Informal Entrepreneurs and Hyperformal Government"
- From local government to civil society
- "Subsidiarity, Decentralization and Privatization"
- MG supports CARE-HK
- Dealing with Philippine Bureaucracy Part 1
- Individual liberty and property rights in the Pacific Rim
- Liberty and Choice vs. Dictation and Extortion
- Minimal government intervention
- Some Myths about Market and State Responsibility
- Rent-seeking and Government
- Why more government can mean less health care
- Seven Principles of sound public policy
Small Taxes
- Income tax reform, Momentum 107, Hong Kong
- Replacement of Income Tax by VAT
- The Road to Tax Haven
- Constitutional rule and restraint on taxation
- Essays on Politics and Taxes
- Essays on market and state
- The Retreat of High Income Tax Rate Philosophy in the World
- Rationale of income tax abolition
- Flat is beautiful: Proving the feasibility of a 10% flat personal income tax in the Philippines
Free Market
- Removing barriers to trade: Our experience in Malaysia
- Politics of Property
- Why do intellectuals oppose capitalism?
- The communist road to self-enslavement
- The humanitarian with the guillotine
- Intellectuals and capitalism, self-enslavement and limits to humanitarianism
- Advancing liberty: shrug the wall harder
- Social security through people's capitalism
- Smith's economic morals: An introduction
- Escape from poverty, Korean experience
- Consumers' welfare through deregulation, not politicized pricing
- Property Rights and Free Trade
- Free Trade and Global Recession
- Free Trade Petition
- Does race matter?
- Trillion Wrongs and the Great Depression
- Global credit squeeze: crippled capitalism or bail-out statism?
- Price control is price dictatorship
- Market self correction or more Government intervention?
- Controlling the dangers of price control
- MR = MC
- While Doha sleeps
- Essays on Free Trade
- When Government Politicizes Agriculture
- Essays on taxes
- Foreign aid for health
- What's killing the poor is poverty
- Free trade = free choice
- Obstacles to free trade
- Just trade: the moral imperative of eliminating barriers to trade
- Welfare function of profit and CSR
- What determines wage?
- Central banks can be anti-globalists too
- Globalization = mobility = freedom
- No such thing as nurses brain drain
- Oil taxes and horses
Individual Responsibility
- Financial turmoil and personal responsibility: the MG perspective
- Credit Crisis and Irresponsibility
- State welfarism vs. individual responsibility
- Why education should be parental responsibility, not government responsibility
Intellectual Property Rights
- Essays on IPR and Health, part 6
- Essays on IPR and Health, part 5
- Essays on IPR and Health, part 4
- Essays on IPR and Health, part 3
- Snakebites, patents and medicine prices
- "The WHO's sick manifesto for global recession"
- Essays on IPR and health
- RA 9502: Affordable medicines law
- Intellectual property rights (BWorld article, Oct. 24, 2007)
- Don't look to India for health care answers (by Bibek Debroy)
- Promoting Innovation and Public Health Through Less Government Intervention
- Local Pharmaceutical Production in Developing Countries
- Cheap at all cost medicines kill innovation
- Scrapping patents is dangerous medicine
- Patents - protecting your money and your life
- The Medical Observer
- Civil Society commentary on the WHO Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property
Hayek Reader
- Hayek Reader 3 Inequality, Responsibility and Meritocracy
- Hayek Reader 2: Libertty, Spontaneity and Easterly
- Hayek Reader: liberty and rule of law
