Communal Methods of Land Tenure Might Not Allow Development – Evidence From Denmark
No single paper like this is going to be conclusive either way but the traditional claim that communal methods of land tenure do too...
Sugar Wowsers At Sheffield University Rediscover The Law Of Demand
It is really truly amazing what people are able to prove with this science stuff. Here, from the bods at Sheffield University, we've a...
CVAs, House Of Fraser And The Death Of The High Street
Landlords are beginning - well, vocally at least - to complain about the use of CVAs in reducing rents on commercial properties. Company voluntary...
Sadiq Khan Plans To Kill London In The Name Of Health Protection
There are excellent reasons for varied policies to deal with pollution and the damage it causes. Like, for example, the damage caused by pollution...
The Indian Interest Rate Rise Is Great For Modi’s Budget, Not Bad
The Indian press is getting the implications of the Indian interest rate rise wrong here. They're saying that it poses a danger to Narendra...
Nonsense – Fossils In Private Hands Are Not Lost To Science
A very strange insistence happening here, that fossil in private hands are somehow denied to science. A most odd claim as who owns the...
UK’s Appalling Destitution According to JRF – 8,000 Young Men Will Have Only One...
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is providing us with another one of their reports insisting that we've Victorian, or earlier, levels of poverty and abject...
Markets And Prices Apply Even Out Of This World
A nice little story from China. Meteorites fell on some villages near the Burma border, the locals there deciding that they're very valuable, very...
London Street Gangs Are Economically Rational – Now For The Labour Party, Eh?
An interesting little study from the environs of London. Gangs, street gangs, aren't about protection of social, geographic or racial turf these days. They're...
If AO World Is Facing Such Problems, Isn’t This A Free Market?
As we all know a pure free market does not exist and never has existed. The question then becomes, well, is that pure free...