Freedom and Flourishing

The graph shown above indicates that productivity growth rates in high-income countries have declined. That decline seems evident even...

The chart shows that those OECD countries with the greatest burden of debt servicing a decade ago have subsequently had the lowest gr...

When suggestions have been made to me in the past that I should write about Bitcoin, I have expressed reluctance on the grounds that I don’...

Some readers will wonder why I am bothering to ask this question. It appears to be fairly obvious that people who are relying on interest o...

Who is Steve Keen? What is the NAR? And why am I wondering whether or not I agree with Steve Keen? Steve Keen is an Australian economic...

I have been feeling a strong urge to write about the economic policies of the former government of our resurrected prime minister, Kevin Ru...

An article in ‘The Economist’ last week suggests that the ‘ bursting of the global housing bubble is only halfway through ’ (‘Economics f...

‘What most alarms us in our contemporary world, what unsettles and scares us, is the extent to which the forces that shape our lives are n...

Jim was obviously agitated by my response to his question. He had just asked me whether I thought that the latest political deal in Europe...