Beware the Commission’s rotten Apple ruling

7 September 2016
The European Commission has ordered Ireland to recover €13bn worth of allegedly unpaid taxes from Apple. Reception of the decision has …

The EU and economic freedom: a complicated relationship

3 August 2016
The European Union is all things to all people. To proponents on the right, it is a force for international cooperation, …

Ever freer union? Economic freedom and the EU

3 August 2016
By performing an econometric analysis on the Fraser Institute’s “Economic Freedom of the World: Annual Report 2015,” it is found that …

Radical, but not equal: assessing corporate tax reforms

27 July 2016
A tax on turnover would tax profitable and loss-making firms equally, potentially posing an insurmountable hurdle to struggling firms, and eliminating …

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The fight of a generation – literally

Diego Zuluaga // 21.09.2016

Economic debates are often presented as a contest between two opposing interest groups. Marxian socialism pitted capital against labour. …

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Natural disasters and the faults of state-funded reconstruction

Paolo Belardinelli // 19.09.2016

I hail from Marche, one of the regions hit by the recent earthquake in which 292 people died. Unfortunately, …

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Europe’s demographic timebomb

Philip Booth // 16.09.2016

This article is based on a presentation Prof Booth gave at the Autumn University of the Alliance of European …

Death by infrastructure spending

Diego Zuluaga // 13.09.2016

Infrastructure investment is often presented by policymakers as a silver bullet in times of recession or sluggish growth. Public …

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