Where next for capitalism?
Writing for the BBC today, Madsen outlines his ideas about what capitalism should do to renew itself: What capitalism should now do is to free itself from these rent-seeking perversions and spread its...
View ArticleMy word, you mean competition actually works?
Well, would you look at that! Apparently competition works to the benefit of consumers! Who could have possibly predicted that outcome? Shop prices fell at the steepest rate for at least eight years...
View ArticleWhy Miliband is wrong on energy policy
This article was originally published in the Young Fabian’s quarterly magazine, Anticipations (Volume 18, Issue 1 | Autumn 2014). On this we will agree: the corporate monopoly dominating the UK energy...
View ArticleOn the merits of competition in government services
Perhaps we should be having more competition with government services? A businessman who built his own £325,000 toll road to bypass roadworks is to close the shortcut after the local council invested...
View ArticleEurope’s Digital Dirigisme
Google has recently announced that it is ending its Google News service in Spain before a new intellectual property law – dubbed the ‘Google tax’ – requires Spanish publishers to charge the company for...
View ArticleGetting educated – like it’s the 21st century
Innovative independent institutions are for those who can afford it and the rest will make do with the stagnant state school system: a status quo forthcoming generations should accept no more. An...
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Uber: helping drivers, helping customers
The first comprehensive analysis of Uber ‘partners’ (i.e. drivers) has come out, written by Dr. Jonathan Hall, head of policy research at Uber, and Prof. Alan Krueger, of Princeton, and formerly Barack...
View ArticleSchool choice: first evidence to prove long-term benefits
A report released this month by Victor Lavy of CESifo is the first evidence of its kind to prove the long-term social and economic benefits of school choice. Up until now, research conducted has...
View ArticleEconomic Nonsense: 29. The economy should be based on co-operation rather...
It is competition that makes the economy work. Producers compete with each other to supply consumers, and consumers bid against each other to decide who buys. When goods are in short supply consumers...
View ArticleEconomic Nonsense: 39. Only strong government regulation can hold big...
It isn’t strong government that causes concern for big business. They are more worried about the smaller, newer businesses that might take away their trade. It is competition, not government that...
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