The Evidence Is Clear: Population Growth and Prosperity Are NOT Linked
An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...Immigration is a hot topic in the antipodes too, for much the same reason as in the US….the impact on jobs and wage rates.
Read more...How much-derided “populism” has revealed some ugly truths about the TPP, leading Clinton and Obama to try to reposition themselves.
Read more...How the housing bubble is restructuring Australian society. Are the same patterns emerging in your country?
Read more...Even by the standards of European kick-the-can-down-the-road exercises, measures to stave of an Italian banking crisis are really slapdash.
Read more...The megadrought is coming….and it is not pretty.
Read more...Debunking the claim that extending unemployment insurance during the aftermath of the crisis was a bad idea.
Read more...A discussion of why the center-left failed to revive in Europe after the crisis. Some of the reasons apply to the US as well.
Read more...More evidence that housing bubbles distort economic activity and act as a damper on growth.
Read more...Millennials aren’t spending like they are supposed to…with good reason.
Read more...Theresa May may have thrown a spanner in the Brexit works by pushing for a xenophobic “hard Brexit”. Accident or design?
Read more...We are not in a recovery and we’re not really in a traditional recession. People think of a business cycle, which is a boom followed by a recession and then automatic stabilizers revive the economy. But this time we can’t revive.
Read more...A case for why the end of growth equals the end of all centralization, including globalization.
Read more...Why citizens are correct to be worried about trade deals like CETA and the TTIP.
Read more...Why the idea that wages represent “just deserts,” as in the individual’s contribution to social output, is bunk.
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