by Dan Mitchell | Sep 30, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Supply Side, Taxation
There are several visual ways of helping people understand how fiscal policy (and especially marginal tax rates) can change behavior. The philoso-raptor meme. The questioning worker. Supply-and-demand curves. The Wizard-of-Id parody. To augment these examples,...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 15, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Three days ago, I wrote about Australia’s system of personal retirement accounts and explained why it is much better than America’s bankrupt Social Security system. This does not mean, however, that Australia does a good job with overall...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2025 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I wrote last December to share the results of a study Robert O’Quinn and I wrote for Canada’s Fraser Institute on pension systems in OECD nations. Our main goal was to show that personal retirement accounts are now surprisingly common,...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 26, 2022 | Blogs
I’m a big believer in looking at long-run trends, particularly whether countries are experiencing convergence of divergence with regards to per-capita economic output. Poor nations normally should grow faster than rich nations, so we can...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2019 | Blogs
I had a chance to write about several interesting topics (Australian politics and policy, the economics of government spending, the structure of taxation) on my recent trip Down Under. I also appeared on The Outsiders, one of Australia’s most popular political...
