Cooperation With Mises Institute Europe
byI very much enjoyed giving a speech on Enlightenment values at an event organised by the Mises Institute in Brussels a couple of weeks…
Savings as the engine of economic growth
byMost economists concur with the view that what keeps the economy going is consumption expenditure. Furthermore, it is generally held that spending rather than…
Monetary Fallacies and Inflationary Bubbles
byLooking to the next few years ahead, is America and the world going to continue riding a wave of economic growth, improving standards of…
Robots, employment and the mis-measurement of productivity
byUK productivity – output/hour has risen 1.5% in a decade UK unemployment, at 4.2%, is the lowest since April 1975 UK real-wages have risen…
PRIVACY POLICY
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Consumer Demand Does Not Lead to Jobs and Output
byBy Jai Khemani Jai recently got 2 A*s and an A in his A levels and is now looking forward to university. Jai is particularly…
Keynote Speech Published in German Economics Journal ORDO
byMy keynote speech at the Future of Money Conference in Leipzig last year has been published in ORDO, one of the oldest and most…
May Day
by“Japan was the dress rehearsal; the rest of the world will be the main event.” Investor in Japanese stocks, known to this correspondent, circa…
Does it matter whether assumptions in economics are arbitrary?
byVarious assumptions employed by mainstream economists appear to be of an arbitrary nature. The assumptions seem to be detached from the real world. For…
Potato Chips vs. Microchips: A False Dichotomy
byby Mary Lucia Darst It doesn’t make any difference whether a country makes computer chips or potato chips!” ~ attributed to Michael J. Boskin ~…