My Op-ed in CityAM on Monetary Reform
“This week, the first Annual Summit on Economic Freedom will take place in the European parliament. I will have the pleasure of debating with…
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Reasons for Anti-Capitalism: Ignorance, Arrogance, and Envy
Why is the free enterprise or capitalist economic system so widely disliked, hated and opposed? Given the success of the competitive market economy to…
Read MoreHow to Win a Great-Power Competition: Alliances, Aid, and Diplomacy in the Last Struggle for Global Influence
The United States is confronted with a condition in the world which is at direct variance with the assumptions upon which [our foreign] policies…
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A monster in plain sight
“Interesting. Sex works even better than chocolate to modify behaviour. I wonder if anyone else has stumbled onto that.” Sheldon Cooper (Jim…
Read MoreHomos Economicus: a Largely Irrational Animal
Or ‘How Expected Utility Theory was Successfully Challenged by a Nobel Prize-winning Hypothesis’ By Jessica King 2002’s Nobel prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman wrote…
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Cobden Centre Seminar at the OECD and Meeting at the IMF
Last Wednesday I gave a seminar at the OECD on the Austrian School of Economics. I presented with Professor Gunther Schnabl from Leipzig University,…
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China – leading indicator? Stocks, credit policy, rebalancing and money supply
Chinese 10yr bond yields have been rising steadily since October 2016. They never reached the low or negative levels of Japan or Germany. 1yr…
Read MoreCapitalism and Competition
Market competition is at the heart of the capitalist system. It serves as the driving force for creative innovation, the mechanism by which market…
Read MoreThe Communist Holocaust and its lessons for the 21st century
For at least half a century, nearly every secondary school pupil and university student in Britain has learnt about the evils of Nazism and…
Read MoreCapitalism and the Free Society, Part 2
The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation…
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