by Dan Mitchell | Jul 18, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve been writing about China this week (see here and here) because I’m teaching economics at Northeastern University in Shenyang. But, regardless of my location, I probably would be writing about China this week anyhow because the country’s leadership has been having...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 17, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I wrote yesterday that I’m in China this week, teaching at Northeastern University in Shenyang. This gives me a good excuse to write a series of columns about Chinese economic policy. Our first entry was about demographics, which is a challenge in China (as well as...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 16, 2024 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
I’m in China this week, teaching about fiscal policy, convergence theory, and inequality at Northeastern University in Shenyang. So it’s a good opportunity to write about some pluses and minuses of Chinese economic policy. We’ll start this series...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 18, 2023 | Blogs
In a capitalist system, poor people are not poor because rich people are rich. Our friends on the left are wrong to view the economy as a fixed pie. The same thing is true when looking at countries. Two years ago, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
I am not bullish about China’s economy. Even 10 or more years ago, when many people thought China was going to be the economic superpower of the 21st century, I poured cold water on those predictions. Simply stated, China suffers from too...
