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Category: Economics

Rent-seeking and Inequality

Reading Time: 5 minutes 26 billionaires own as much as the world’s poorest 3.8 billion people – perhaps unsurprising given how little the poor in developing countries own. Inequality is widely accepted as not […]

September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 Alexander Man Economics, Quick Reads

Why IP Laws Should Be Weakened

Reading Time: 4 minutes Intellectual property (IP) laws have gathered a lot of press recently, specifically in relation to the cost of drugs and healthcare, as well as the US-China trade war. There is […]

September 3, 2020October 12, 2020 Edward Hilditch Economics, Quick Reads

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 […]

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 Trevor Chow Economics, Medium Reads

The Digitalisation of Cash: Key Impacts on the Developing World

Reading Time: 3 minutes Development in the third world is rarely incremental. Instead, countries are often able to skip a stage in the course of development usually taken by an economically advanced nation. A […]

June 9, 2020June 10, 2020 Titus Macdermot Economics, Quick Reads

Is GDP dead: What metric should we use to guide growth?

Reading Time: 3 minutes GDP has historically been the lens through which we viewed our success: a high GDP growth meant that the economy was booming and that lives were improving, while a drop […]

June 9, 2020June 10, 2020 Cees Armstrong Economics, Quick Reads

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 […]

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 Rohan Battula Economics, Medium Reads

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 […]

May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 Rohan Battula Economics, Medium Reads

A Conversation with Professor Behrman on Development Economics

Reading Time: 4 minutes Professor Jere Behrman is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His work on the role of human capital in development has been incredibly […]

April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Trevor Chow Economics, Quick Reads, Quick Reads

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 […]

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020 Ambrose Mui Economics, Medium Reads, Medium Reads, Politics

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 […]

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020 Tyler Brozio Economics, Medium Reads, Uncategorized

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