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This article was first published by Business Day on 30 August 2023 Margaret Thatcher once said: “There is no such thing as society.” What she meant was society
8 September 2023
This article was first published by Business Day on 30 August 2023 Margaret Thatcher once said: “There is no such thing as society.” What she meant was society
Rules and regulations are not necessarily bad things; it all depends on what they do and how they are enforced.
Regulations and rules are not necessarily bad things; it all depends on what they do and how they are enforced.
Recently the very well meaning, but economically uninformed, Oxfam made a statement on Twitter.
A few years back jazz musician Eric Felten had a piece in the Wall Street Journal on how taxes put an end to the era of Swing music.
One of my privileges in life was to come to know and be friends with Dr. Nathaniel Branden (1930-2014), considered by many to be the father of the self-esteem movement.
Paul Ehrlich has spent most of his adult life claiming the world is ending, birth rates are skyrocketing, populations are exploding, famine is around the corner and we’re running out of everything.
Because of its illiberal and authoritarian policies the choice of Qatar for the World Cup created a lot of controversy.
I once received a rebuttal to a piece I wrote about economics. Much of it wasn’t precisely clear to me but one obvious point was the author’s view regarding how she thought markets operated.
I’ve got a problem with “free markets.” I don’t mean I have an issue with markets being free, but I think the term itself fails to explain what is at stake.