Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, and other people’s money
Governments are bad at spending money because they are incentivised to spend it badly. At the societal level, this is why big-government economies make their people poor and small government economies achieve prosperity
- 10 May 2016
Living in the Age of Keynes
Since 2008 we are supposed to have seen ‘The Return of the Master’. In truth he never went away. We’ve been living in the Age of Keynes for decades
- 18 June 2013
Union funded fact-checkers get fat cheques for false facts
Richard Murphy, of the Tax Justice Network, has hurled incorrect accusations at the Adam Smith Institute. Remarkable for a nominee for 'left wing thinker of the year'
- 19 September 2012
Reflections on the case of John Terry
When did we start this trend towards using the power and authority of the state to deal with issues which families, friends, and voluntary associations would have adjudicated on in the past?
- 16 August 2012
Memo to Dave: No matter how much rubbish you talk, Guardianistas won't love you
David Cameron will never be loved by the left, even by being moralistic over Jimmy Carr's taxes. So why risk being hated by the right too?
- 26 June 2012
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