Carehomes: The timebomb the government won’t diffuse
Reading Time: 5 minutes As a barometer of society’s civilisation, the UK’s care home sector is important. However, employing more people than the NHS, it is economically and politically important too. Clear and visible […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What Explains the Global Rise of Populism?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The dawn of civilization established and rooted hierarchies that from the very beginning pigeonholed humanity into various ordered groups, dividing it into extremes of economic, cultural and political power. Indeed, […]
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 […]
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 […]
How We Can Change the Electoral College System
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the year 2000, after 36 days of recounting Florida was handed to George W Bush setting the scene for his next 8 years in Washington D.C. The decisive margin, […]
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 […]
Should the Response to Global Pandemics Be Led by Politicians or Experts?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Humanity’s collective reaction to COVID-19 has accentuated the differences between the various political systems and governments currently ruling their own corners of the world. China amazed many with its rapid […]