Tom Papworth
6 August 2009
The Bank of England’s decision to pump an additional £50 billion into the economy, over and above the £125 billion earlier this year, has been accompanied by the sound of...
Steven Kates
30 July 2009
What we call “Keynesian” economics is not some minor sub-division of economic theory but is the very essence of macroeconomics itself. Keynes in 1936 had one central idea in writing his...
David B. Smith
10 June 2009
Britain now faces one of the most serious fiscal crises in its peacetime history. One reason is that the UK is now caught up in a sudden and severe international recession. However, the government...
Anthony J. Evans
6 May 2009
Recently in The Times Anatole Kaletsky attacked the “many financiers [that] have been calling… for a ‘market solution’ based on the so-called Austrian school of economic...
Richard Wellings
9 April 2009
● Gary Becker has an antidote to federal activism
● Donald J. Boudreaux argues that stimulus plans destroy wealth
● Keith Boyfield responds to Adair Turner’...
D. R. Myddelton
7 April 2009
Anatole Kaletsky [The Times, April 6] says the G20 countries are right to borrow and spend even more than they have done already. But he seems to be living in a dream world.
First he says this...
Richard Wellings
25 March 2009
● Philip Booth lectures on “Catholicism and Capitalism” at Westminster Cathedral Hall (video)
● Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy argue that we must not let the ‘...
Richard Wellings
24 October 2008
Alistair Darling’s proposed spending spree on bringing forward major capital projects suggests the government is prepared to sacrifice the economy’s long-term interests for short-term...