You Had One Job

The World Health Organization (WHO) and Public Health England (PHE) have been widely criticised for their response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Serious questions have …

The response to the pandemic: A Hayekian view

Socio-economic systems should be understood as ‘complex’ phenomena that cannot effectively be controlled or managed through central planning. In general, markets and other decentralised …

Vaccine: we must change our absurd rules instead of castigating Sanofi

Excessively high taxes on production, exceedingly slow authorizations for market launch, and an overbearing bureaucracy. France is ensuring that innovation, especially regarding pharmaceuticals, happens …

How fragile systems worsened the impact of COVID-19

There are features of our way of life and some of our economic systems that make outbreaks like Covid-19 more likely. The pandemic we …

The problems of financing through European mechanisms

There has been a great deal of debate recently – not just in the media, but also in academia and among economic analysts – …

Going Viral: The History and Economics of Pandemics

Pandemics are a recurring feature of human history. In the modern world, since the 1770s, we have had a series of pandemics, with a …

Coronabonds offer the wrong path

The German newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’ published an open letter by well-known artists about an initiative to issue Coronabonds in order to share the burden …

Spanish lessons from the pandemic

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is by no means over, in Spain we can already start to learn some lessons that will ensure the same …