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...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 11, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
Exactly one month ago, I declared that Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley deserved an award for the “world’s most economically illiterate statement” because of her claim that “poverty is not naturally occurring.” In reality, poverty has been the norm throughout...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 9, 2021 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics, Government Spending, Keynesian
We have decades of real-world experience with Keynesian economics. The results are not pretty. It didn’t work for Hoover.It didn’t work for Roosevelt.It didn’t work for Japan.It didn’t work for Europe.It didn’t...
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...
