by Dan Mitchell | Mar 8, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
I periodically write about the importance of long-run growth and about the importance of convergence (whether poorer countries are catching up with richer countries, as suggested by theory). This is because such data, especially over decades,...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 4, 2021 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
The 2021 edition of the Index of Economic Freedom was released today (as I’ve repeatedly stated, it’s my favorite annual publication from the Heritage Foundation). There are five things that merit attention 1. Hong...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 2, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
The class-warfare crowd and tax lawyers don’t have a lot in common, but both groups oppose the flat tax. An even stranger unholy alliance involves the War on Drugs, which has the support of both the activists who despise drugs and the criminals who get rich...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 26, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
I repeatedly write about the importance of economic growth, usually citing data about gross domestic product (GDP), which is defined as “a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced in a specific time...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 25, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
I’ve written many times about the spectacularly positive impact of pro-market reforms in Chile. The shift toward free markets, which began in the mid-1970s, was especially beneficial for the less fortunate (see here, here,...
