A Most Uncomfortable Thought About The Taiping Rebellion And The Black Death – Maybe...
There is a school of thought - perhaps just a strain of it rather than an entire institution - which tells us that the...
The Effects Of Tax Changes Depends Upon Whose Taxes Are Changed
Something that macroeconomists looking at the economy from 30,000 feet often miss. The effects of changes rather depend upon who the changes are occurring...
Yes, You’re Right, Owen Jones Is Ignorant Of The World
That Owen Jones is a fine propagandist, pamphlet writer, is clearly and obviously true. The sadness is that this talent, skill, seems unsullied by...
The Two Towers
Free market capitalism isn’t perfect.
But it is the best we have ever managed – after all, WE are not perfect either.
As I have said...
The Problem With Modern Monetary Theory
Much of Modern Monetary Theory is, as its proponents insist, simply true. Governments can create more of their own fiat currency at will. How...
Bike Sharing – Welcome The Competition
We tend not to like competition - if we're the provider of whatever it is. But there are times when having people come into...
Dear UN Poverty Expert – The UK Has No Extreme Poverty
Those of us who read The Guardian - hey, we've got to know what they're thinking because they might always do something else truly...
Why Don’t We Just Abolish Tax Poverty – Instead Of This Living Wage Nonsense...
As we all know there's much muttering about how low pay should rise, about how there's some just and righteous minimum that anyone should...
Biplab Deb’s Terrible Cow Idea – India Needs Fewer Peasant Farmers, Not More
It's entirely - and obviously - true that giving things to farmers aids in gaining the votes of those farmers. Other than that this...
The UN Rapporteur, Philip Alston, Investigates Britain’s Extreme Poverty – Not That We Have...
Philip Alston is the UN Rapporteur on extreme poverty around the place. He's just arrived in the UK to report on how well -...