by Dan Mitchell | Sep 24, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Looking at measures of relative global prosperity, Chinese people are rich in Singapore. They are rich in Hong Kong. And they are rich in Taiwan. Americans of Chinese descent also are rich. So why is China not also rich? The answer is bad...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 26, 2024 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
For the final installment in this series (the first three parts can be viewed here, here, and here), let’s start with a video from Prager University. I like the video for the selfish reason that it matches my 2019 analysis. At the risk of over-simplification,...
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...
