Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in applied price theory, economic growth, macroeconomics, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: British politics
The US economy has emerged from the pandemic growing at a faster pace than the UK and other high-income countries. Simon Pittaway tackles the question of why in “Yanked away: Accounting for the post-pandemic productivity divergence between Britain and America” (Resolution Foundation, April 2025). The average standard of living in any economy, over time, will…
Why Is the US Economy Surging Ahead of the UK?
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in applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, entrepreneurship, growth miracles, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: child poverty, family poverty, The Great Enrichment
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in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, technological progress Tags: wind power
Sunset kills solar output the same way calm weather renders wind turbines utterly useless. Around the world $trillions have been squandered on occasional power generation which is always and everywhere dependent on sunshine and/or the weather. In the beginning, there was a perfectly functional power supply with reliable generators connected by a systematically designed grid […]
Occasional Wind & Solar Generation Guarantee Staggering Backup Costs
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in economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, income redistribution, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: British politics, climate alarmism, wind power
By Paul Homewood From The Telegraph: Labour’s green U-turn reflects the shifting sands of climate policy If you want to see how the politics of climate change are shifting, compare today with late 2009. In both cases, a general election was approaching. In October 2009, with the Copenhagen climate summit […]
Charles Moore: The political class is only just realising that voters prefer prosperity over climate jingoism
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in defence economics, technological progress, war and peace Tags: World War I
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in defence economics, economic history, technological progress, transport economics, urban economics, war and peace Tags: Roman empire
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in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, technological progress Tags: climate alarmists, extreme poverty, pessimism bias, regressive left, The Great Escape
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in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of natural disasters, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, history of economic thought, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, technological progress, urban economics Tags: climate alarmists, pessimism bias, regressive left
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in applied welfare economics, development economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, health economics, Public Choice, technological progress
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in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: competition law, The Great Enrichment
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of education, health and safety, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle, technological progress Tags: distributive justice
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