by Dan Mitchell | Feb 12, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs
My Fourteenth Theorem of Government explains that when government intervenes for the ostensible purpose of providing help to poor people in the short run, it is all but inevitable that such policies will hurt poor people in the long run. It...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 9, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
The past two days have featured columns about Estonia, with the first one focusing on the nation’s impressive rebound after decades of communist enslavement and the second one criticizing the Organization for Economic Cooperation and...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 7, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
As far as I’m concerned, the huge reductions in global poverty in recent decades are the only evidence we need about the benefits of economic growth. This chart I shared in 2014 shows that output doubles much faster when annual...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 12, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Taxation
Thomas Piketty is a big proponent of class-warfare tax policy because he views inequality as a horrible outcome. But a soak-the-rich policy agenda, echoed by many other academics such as Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 27, 2022 | Blogs, Free Market
There were many notable tweets in 2021. The tweet of the yearThe most morally reprehensible tweetThe most depressing tweet (for the left)The best counter-tweet I realize there are still more than 11 months left in 2022, but we may have a...
