by Dan Mitchell | Jun 8, 2025 | Blogs, Economics
I have a special page called Poverty Hucksters, which features people or institutions (such as the Obama Administration, Steven Greenhouse, and the United Nations) that have deliberately lied about poverty. No person has ever been featured more...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 19, 2024 | Blogs
Argentina’s economy suffered a dramatic decline from 1946-2023 because of statist policy. The economy became such a disaster that voters shocked the world in late 2023 by choosing Javier Milei, a hard-core libertarian, to be their next...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 3, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
I frequently cite a column I wrote in 2017 about how 1980-2010 was a reasonably good era for China, thanks to a bit of economic liberalization. My leftist friends will say that can’t be true because inequality increased during those decades. I respond...
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 | May 1, 2024 | Blogs, Economics
Genuine material deprivation is almost nonexistent in rich nations such as the United States. This is a huge improvement compared to how people lived just 100 or 20o years ago. Yet public policy fights about poverty will probably never end for the...
