Why Shouldn’t Would Be Swiss Citizens Adopt The Swiss Culture?
There is something of a kerfluffle looming, might even be a rumpus. A Swiss canton (and it is the cantons which decide, not the...
How The Heck Does Plutocracy Reduce Productivity?
I fear that we're getting matters economic rather mixed up over there on the left. For we've the claim that higher wages for CEOs,...
Sadiq Khan Wants To Offer Uber Monopoly Profits In London
Sadiq Khan is suggesting that he should enact monopoly profits for Uber in London. This isn't quite what he's saying publicly but it is...
Gordon Brown And The Terrors Of Modern Child Poverty
We're told that child poverty is at extreme levels, that this is the abandonment of a generation, even that this is a Sin on...
Contrary To Continued Claims QE Reduces Inequality
We're bombarded with claims that quantitative easing has only benefited the rich. Asset prices have risen, that's all that's happened, why are we bailing...
Google’s Response To The EU’s Android And Search Case
Hal Varian has made some cogent points about digital economics. Not wholly certain that all of the following is quite so obviously true but...
To Explain How Unemployment Can Be Very Low, Wage Growth Also Low – Immigration
There's a standard piece of economics, so standard that even Karl Marx got it right, concerning the unemployment rate and wage growth. The lower...
Amazing, Astonishing, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Socialists Do Something Economically Sensible – Charge For Gas
We've all spent the best part of a decade wondering at the economic lunacy enacted in Venezuela. It's so bad that inflation is expected...
But Why Would New Landlords Raise The Price Of Railway Arches?
Once again we seem to have one of these misunderstandings of how business works. People are really likely to buy lots of commercial property...
The Logical Error In The IFS Report On Taxation
The Institute for Fiscal Studies is making a rather strange logical error in its latest report or discussion of taxes. It's also managing to...