Universal Basic Income: Is it a good idea?

29 December 2019

The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is currently the subject of much interest and discussion in the UK, with support and opposition …

Free to work: Employment regulations in 2019

30 January 2019

The Employment Flexibility Index of LFMI quantifies a great divergence in employment regulations between EU countries. Of the 41 countries included in the index …

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 …

A Universal Basic Income (UBI): a price worth paying to cut regulations?

Ryan Bourne // 14 March 2018

Suppose the government redistributed to every adult Briton a basic, unconditional income of £10,000 from tax revenues. Would aggregate employment levels a) rise, b) …

Getting the State out of Pre-School & Childcare

6 February 2017

Decisions on childcare arrangements were largely a private matter until the 1990s. A political consensus has since arisen that government action is needed to …

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 Conservatives …

The Government Debt Iceberg

Jagadeesh Gokhale, March 2014

Western governments have developed unfunded social insurance programmes where retiree benefits are paid for from the taxes of …

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