by Dan Mitchell | Jun 12, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
There’s much to dislike about Keynesian economics, most notably that it tells politicians that their vice – buying votes by spending other people’s money – is somehow a virtue. Advocates of Keynesianism also can be very simplistic, sometimes falling victim to the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 9, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
As part of my recent presentation to IES Europe, here’s what I said (and what I’ve said many times before) about the relationship between economic policy and national prosperity. My remarks focused in part on the difference between absolute economic liberty and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 5, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
Yesterday, I shared some research showing how misguided redistribution policies lead to high implicit marginal tax rates that discourage work. Then I was interviewed about a very tangible example of this phenomenon – jobless benefits that give people more money than...
by Dan Mitchell | May 30, 2020 | Blogs, Economics
In this interview from last March, I groused that the Supreme Court – largely thanks to statist Justices appointed by one of America’s worst presidents – basically decided, starting in the 1930s, that it would no longer be bound by the Constitution’s provisions that...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I have applauded the incredible economic success of Hong Kong, which has long been ranked as the world’s most economically free jurisdiction. Well, given China’s recent decision to impose more controls on Hong Kong, I want to share this interview I did last October....
