Category: Medium Reads
Interview with Oliver Hart
Reading Time: 8 minutes Professor Oliver Hart is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics Harvard University. He specialises in contract theory and the theory of the firm, having served as the President of […]
A Conversation with Professor Dave Donaldson on International Trade
Reading Time: 5 minutes TC: To begin with, I wanted to discuss industrial policy, which has seen a resurgence in the 2020 election cycle, whether that’s in the form of the Buy American plan […]
Comparing the Financial Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic to the 2008 Financial Crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Millions unemployed. The world in shock. Governments panicking. Both the financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic left the globe reeling. Yet governments responded with their own bailout packages, their own […]
Protectionism: The Impact on a Country’s Development
Reading Time: 5 minutes Protectionist policies are typically exercised by countries in order to protect domestic industries from foreign competition. Protectionism is usually expressed in the form of tariffs on foreign imports, subsidies, regulatory […]
Why Private Schools should not pay VAT
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Labour party have always suggested that private schools start paying VAT for years, but this is a disastrous idea. Keir Starmer, the newly elected Labour leader said last month that […]
The Free Market vs Capitalism: A Case for Market Socialism
Reading Time: 4 minutes Capitalism and the free market, two ideas that over the last century have been conflated with each other to a point where they’re used interchangeably in mainstream politics. The issue […]
Why We Need a Universal Basic Income
Reading Time: 4 minutes Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a government initiative consisting of an unconditional periodic payment to every adult citizen. UBI has been described as one of the most ambitious social projects […]
Brexit or Bust- Can One Have the Former Without the Latter?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Too often has Brexit been classed as an issue that will devastate the British economy. The issue is that Brexit does not necessarily mean economic depression, as promoted by campaigns […]
On the Global Free Movement of People
Reading Time: 5 minutes The border has become the focal point of the 21st Century debate on globalisation. To some, it is an arbitrary boundary hampering efficiency, to others, it is the mainstay of […]
An Interview with Peter Diamond, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
Reading Time: 7 minutes I had the privilege of being able to interview Peter Diamond, a professor at MIT and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010. He is especially […]