Month: April 2019
What is progressivism?
Politicians of the left often refer to themselves as progressives. But the term is not necessarily well understood: the ideal of progress is of course not [...]
A brief history of the US Dollar hegemony
The US Dollar is the worlds "reserve currency": the means of exchange which is accepted as payment for almost all international transactions, and the fact [...]
Against rent control
This week, Britain’s Conservative government announced that it will consult on the abolition of Section 21 of the Housing Act, which allows landlords to [...]
Addressing the potential power vacuum of US withdrawal
By Hala Mounib
Interventionist policy has deep roots in U.S. history. From the struggle to limit the expansion of communism in the 1900s to the [...]
Do minimum wages work? A praxeological perspective
In April 1.8 million Brits got a pay rise when the National Living Wage, the new name for the minimum wage, went up by the most ever, a whopping 4.9%. It [...]
The crisis of capitalism is a lack of capitalism
Capitalism is in crisis. That much is clear. The capitalist order stands accused of having caused a torrent of problems from the global financial crisis to [...]