When market failure attracts rent-seekers

Market failures are not simply outcomes you do not like. They are institutional inefficiencies such as externalities (where a proportion of the cost or …

Oxfam’s bad ideas entrench poverty, disease and destitution

Oxfam is back to their old tricks, making pseudoscientific claims about inequality. It is once again hating on the rich while backing policies that will …

Will the 2020s be a good decade for classical liberals?

YES – says Alexander Hammond
It is unlikely that most people will be rampant classical liberals by 2030. Still, for the remainder of …

Energy price hikes: less moralising, more economics

The energy-price crisis is an economic problem.
It is not a moral problem. It is a matter of bringing supply and demand for various …

The Reform of Fiscal Discipline Rules should not be rushed

Fiscal Rules of the European Union
Olaf Scholz, the new German Chancellor, visited French President Emmanuel Macron on 14 December to discuss questions regarding …

Classical liberalism and the geopolitical stand-off with Russia

Generations of students of international relations (IR) at British universities have learned that liberals detest war and actively seek possibilities to eradicate conflict out …