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Why the EU needs the City too

7 June 2018

The UK might appear to have the most to lose from Brexit if City firms find it harder to sell financial services into the …

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Offshore bet

6 June 2018

The popular account of offshore financial centres as hotbeds of tax evasion is an outdated caricature that bears little resemblance to how OFCs operate.
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Non-tariff barriers to trade are damaging too

16 May 2018

On average, the economic costs of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) now far exceed those of tariffs, which have generally been falling as new free trade …

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Robocalypse Now?

14 May 2018

It is claimed that robots, algorithms and artificial intelligence are going to destroy jobs on an unprecedented scale. These developments, unlike past bouts of technical …

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Nanny State Index – Nicotine Supplement

7 May 2018

Our new league table of nanny state regulation shows that punitive taxation and excessive regulation of safer nicotine alternatives has increased across the EU. …

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Growing protectionism after the financial crises

2 May 2018

The weak global GDP growth since the financial crisis in 2007-2009 has coincided with unusually weak growth in global trade.
The average global tariff …

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Flexicurity in the XXI. century

14 June 2018 // Ieva Stepanaviciute

 
As the world is undergoing a third industrial revolution with the field of computer science rapidly expanding, one aspect of the labour …

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The post-Soviet transition to a not so free market economy

5 June 2018 // Ieva Stepanaviciute

 
Lithuania has implemented a far-reaching economic reform program aimed at facilitating the shift from a centrally-planned economy to a free market one. …

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EU Measure Doesn’t Capture Poverty

4 June 2018 // Emanuel Örtengren

The EU member states have agreed that 20 million people should be lifted out of poverty by 2020. However, the measure that the European …

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Brexit offers opportunities but no guarantees in determining how free market the UK will be

25 May 2018 // Jamie Fraser

The potential that Brexit provides the UK to expand its traditional free market principles cannot be understated; unilateral free trade for example could …

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New Zealand is a testament to the benefits of market liberalisation – and a warning of the subsequent back peddling that can arise

24 May 2018 // Jamie Fraser

Jamie Whyte at the First Economic Freedom Summit, addressing liberalising reforms in New Zealand
The transformation of New Zealand’s economic policy from 1972 …

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What have the Swiss ever done for us?

21 May 2018 // Kristian Niemietz

This article was first published under the title “Danke, Schweiz” in the Basler Zeitung, a Swiss daily newspaper. Translation by the author.
Classical liberal …

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