Month: September 2018
The problem with inflation targeting
In central bank lingo, price stability somewhat preposterously means an engineered, predictable and stable increase in the price level. Most central banks, [...]
Labour’s plan for worker’s shares is both naïve and dangerous
A new dangerous and economically illiterate plan has been hatched by the UK's hard-left Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell and presented to Labour’s conference [...]
Baumol’s Disease: the expensive condition afflicting the public sector
The effect known as Baumol’s cost disease describes how salaries in sectors which has experienced no or low productivity gains still follow the general [...]
Socialist in mind, capitalist in deed
Socialism is having a renaissance. After having been totally discredited in the 1980ies, when the Iron Curtain fell and the failure of socialist doctrine was [...]
Gerard Casey and Libertarian Anarchy
By James O'Gallagher
Gerard Casey, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College in Dublin, Ireland, and an Adjunct Scholar at the Mises [...]
Questions for the NHS fanatics
The National health Service is close to the hearts of the British public. As the service celebrated its 70’t birthday this summer, thousands marched in [...]