by Dan Mitchell | Oct 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
From a wonky economic perspective, fascism is a system based on nominal private ownership but de facto government control. For most people, however, I think George Orwell had the best description. Fascism is simply something you don’t like,...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
More than 10 years ago, I warned that Ukraine was suffering from statism. In that column, I compared Ukraine’s economic anemia to Poland’s economic rebound and explained the gap was due to Poland’s pro-market reforms. That same year, I...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 9, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I put a lot of focus on “convergence” and “divergence” because economic theory says rich countries should not grow faster than poor countries. So when there are examples of divergence, especially when looking at decades of data, we can learn very important...
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 7, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
When I wrote about New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a few months ago, here was my main takeaway. Mamdani is an AOC-style hard-core leftist who wants to travel in the wrong direction as far and as fast as Javier Milei is traveling...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2025 | Blogs, Economics, Socialism
When Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic nomination in the New York City Mayor’s race, many Republicans warned that his plan for government-run grocery stores was socialism. Since Mamdani wasn’t threatening (at least not yet) to shut down...
