by Dan Mitchell | Mar 17, 2021 | Blogs, Taxation
Thanks to globalization (as opposed to globalism), jobs and investment are now very mobile. This means the costs of bad policy are higher than ever before, and it also means the benefits of good policy are higher than ever before. Which is why it’s very...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 16, 2021 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
For the past couple of decades, I’ve been warning (over and over and over and over again) that politicians want to curtail tax competition so that it will be easier for them to increase tax burdens....
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 15, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
There are several false narratives about economic history, involving topics ranging from the recent financial crisis to 19th-century sweatshops. But probably the biggest falsehood, as explained in this video by Prof. Lee Ohanian, is...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 14, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
Over the years, I’ve shared many amusing memes and cartoons about minimum wage laws. But this one, based on a skit from The Eric Andre Show, may be the best of all. Not because it’s making a different point than the others, but because what...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 13, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
Two years ago, I shared a study from three scholars that investigated whether membership in the European Union (EU) is associated with better economic performance. Before reading that study, I assumed that EU membership was bad news for rich countries with...
