by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2015 | Blogs, Economics
Chile is one of the world’s economic success stories. Reforms in the 1980s and 1990s liberalized the nation’s economy and resulted in rapid increases in economic growth and big reductions in poverty. Unfortunately, the current government is pushing policy in the wrong...
by CF&P | May 29, 2014 | News, Prosperity Updates
Tax Competition News Singapore to Take Over Top Spot Singapore typically scores near the top in measures of economic liberty. It’s little surprise they are now expected to pass Switzerland as the world’s wealth management...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2014 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
here aren’t any nations with pure libertarian economic policy, but there are a handful of jurisdictions that deserve praise, either because they have comparatively low levels of statism or because they have made big strides in the right direction. Hong Kong and...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2014 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
One of my goals is to convince people that even small differences in long-run growth can have a powerful impact on living standards and societal prosperity. In other words, the economy is not a fixed pie. The right policies, such as free markets and small government,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 10, 2013 | Blogs, Economics
I’m in Vienna, Austria, for the annual European Resource Bank meeting. I had the pleasure last night of listening to Jose Pinera speak about economic reform in Chile, particularly the system of personal retirement accounts. He shared a chart that conclusively shows...
