A New Data Source To Track Childhood Nutrition
As with most ideas it's likely that someone has already had this one. But on the vanishingly small chance that it is not only...
People Lie, Especially About Estate Taxes
Something I hadn't realised is that the reconstructions of who had what wealth in the past are based upon wills and probate. Which is,...
If You’ve £10 And No Debt You’re Richer Than 10% Of Britons – Added...
The Equality Trust treats us to a feast of economic nonsense today in their whinges about wealth inequality. They manage to entirely forget that...
Do You Have To Be Ignorant To Be A Leftist?
Apparently the answer is yes:
Lemann focuses on a lesser-known economist named Michael Jensen, whose 1976 article “Theory of the Firm,” he writes, “prepared the...
David Miles And The Malthusian Mistake On Living Standards
This is an odd mistake for an economist to make. Because this is a point that has been examined rather a lot over the...
Gross Ignorance About Trade Surpluses And The German Economy
Here we go again, it's all Germany's fault. They're running a trade surplus which means that Gotterdamerung will soon be upon the European economy....
Branko Milanovic And The Dreadful Marxist Confusion Of Markets With Capitalism
Branko Milanovic has much to say which is extremely enlightening. His work on whose incomes have risen as a result of globalisation - the...
America’s Modern Slide Toward Feudalism
It's all very fun to predict that America is going to slide toward some modern form of feudalism. It's even more amusing to insist...
To Reduce The Gender Pay Gap Tax Women As Individuals, Not Members Of Families
An interesting test here would be to compare the American taxation system with the British. We here tax people as individuals. Regardless of gender...
Paul Mason’s Problem With Economics
It's a pretty big problem here, the one that Paul Mason has with the basics of economics:
The Institute for Fiscal Studies seems unable to...