George Orwell is widely regarded as a great writer because he combined unusual clarity of prose with intellectual seriousness, moral urgency and a remarkable ability to turn political ideas into memorable literature. His style is one of the main reasons. Orwell worked hard to make difficult ideas seem simple without making them simplistic. His prose is […]
Why George Orwell was a great writer
Why George Orwell was a great writer
03 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, war and peace
Rainbow requirements and Treaty obligations: the HR issues that impede productivity but enhance diversity
03 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of regulation, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, property rights Tags: employment law
Bob Edlin writes – PoO noted a Newsroom report headed Major export and construction firms warn against legal definition of women. The report draws attention to objections raised to the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill, which aims to amend the Legislation Act to define “woman” as “an adult human biological female” and […]
Rainbow requirements and Treaty obligations: the HR issues that impede productivity but enhance diversity
America’s Affordability Problem Is Government
02 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags: The Great Enrichment, top 1%
I have a series of columns (2021, 2024, 2025, and 2026). documenting that Americans are getting richer. And here’s a chart that adds additional evidence. More and more households over time are high income (over $100k) and fewer and fewer are low income (under $35k). And, yes, these numbers are adjusted for inflation. The chart was […]
America’s Affordability Problem Is Government
Sargent on hyperinflation
02 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic history, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, monetarism, monetary economics, unemployment Tags: hyperinflation, monetary policy
Julio Alberto Barajas-Servin: When Electoral Lies Become Justiciable
02 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in Public Choice Tags: British constitutional law, British politics, free speech
Wales has done something unusual – it has enacted a duty to prohibit electoral lies before deciding what the prohibition will look like. Since 27 June 2026, section 13 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 has required the Welsh Ministers to make provision against false or misleading statements of fact made to affect who […]
Julio Alberto Barajas-Servin: When Electoral Lies Become Justiciable
We stopped believing. The rulebook got religion
01 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, economics of religion, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags: constitutional law
Rodney Hide writes – New Zealand is no longer a religious country. That’s not my opinion. It’s the census. In 2023, for the first time since the question was asked, more than half of us, 51.6 per cent, said we had no religion. Christians fell to 32.3 per cent, down from 36.5 per cent five […]
We stopped believing. The rulebook got religion
Munich: The Agreement That Failed to Preserve Peace
01 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: British politics, Nazi Germany, World War II
On 30 September 1938, the leaders of Great Britain, France, Italy and Nazi Germany signed the Munich Agreement, handing the Sudetenland—the predominantly German-speaking border regions of Czechoslovakia—to Adolf Hitler’s Germany. The Czechoslovaks themselves were not parties to the agreement. It was presented as a settlement intended to prevent another European war. British Prime Minister Neville […]
Munich: The Agreement That Failed to Preserve Peace
Andolfatto on business cycles
01 Oct 2026 Leave a comment
in business cycles, history of economic thought, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment
Earl Thompson very much doubts union power
30 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, history of economic thought, labour economics, unions Tags: union power
Does Surgery Work?
30 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
The Economist: Many surgical interventions are little better than placebo The results are upending the field. Removing an inflamed appendix, an operation that around 5-10% of people have had at some point in their life, has turned out to be no better for most patients than a course of antibiotics. Trials comparing different surgical techniques…
Does Surgery Work?
Friedman on fiscal policy
30 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, fiscal policy, history of economic thought, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics
Scott Freeman and the AI boom and possible initial slowdown
30 Sep 2026 Leave a comment
in labour economics, entrepreneurship, macroeconomics, economic growth, history of economic thought, applied price theory, labour supply, economic history, business cycles, unemployment, monetary economics Tags: real business cycle theory
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