TESCO and M&S: The costs of hubris
If TESCO and M&S wish to recapture their former glory they must cut the hubris, focus on the customer, play fair, and return to their roots. There's a new world out there, and they need to join it
- 28 July 2014
The corporatist CBI blusters on about the EU
The corporatist CBI's supportive position on UK membership of the EU makes no sense at all from a broader economic point of view or for entrepreneurship, but it makes a great deal of sense for the vested interests of its main constituency, big business
- 29 June 2014
Is this, from the Economist (!) the worst example of jargon-ridden corporate BS ever?
Would you welcome a "wonderful opportunity to create a rich, immersive, finishable, lean back experience"? Hmm. Sounds a lot like masturbation to me...
- 26 April 2014
If big government is bad, how has the West prospered?
Libertarianism and free market economics will not survive without an answer to the conundrum of rising prosperity against a backdrop of increasing big government. Dan Mitchell from Cato has that answer
- 12 April 2014
Socialists, fascists, corporatists all love big government
Socialism, Marxism, and fascism may have specific motivations and characteristics, but they’re all forms of statism, and they all bring misery to ordinary people
- 11 March 2014
Not capitalism; cronyism: Big government makes it so
For all intents and purposes, big government in Washington has created a niche market for insiders who learn the specialized skill of transferring money from those who earned it to those with political pull. It's the same across the Western world
- 4 March 2014
Why end of communism didn’t make capitalism popular
The Left has successfully blamed market economics for policy failings of their own. The longer it is unfashionable to be a laissez-faire capitalist, the more people will suffer
- 23 January 2014
Lessons for Davos: Undeserved wealth, and poverty
The bottom line is that the poor aren’t poor because of honest rich people. The poor are suffering because of big government, including the cronyism that lines the pockets of dishonest companies and individuals that feed at the public trough
- 23 January 2014
UK housing boom? Seen what's gone on elsewhere?
Judging by these international comparisons the UK experience has been in the middle of the pack. Help to buy...
- 11 October 2013
How to ruin an airline, Italian style
Legend has it that Alitalia stood for Always Late In Takeoff, Always Late In Arrival. That was about flying the planes. You should see how they run the business
- 11 October 2013
Privatisation may not work well under corporatism
This is not some woolly Lefty thing. We live in a corporatist not a free market capitalist society. That has implications for privatisation that we need to face up to
- 14 September 2013
There is no third way
Conservatives must embrace true free market capitalism and reject the cronyism of the state
- 10 August 2012
What is the Coalition for?
If the Coalition is to successfully deal with the problems the country faces, it needs to have an Agreement that puts the condition of Britain at its core
- 7 August 2012
Growth Under Pressure: London's green conference this week advocated 'non-growth economic models'
This week's Planet Under Pressure conference in London set in motion how green activists will attempt to stop economic growth around the world.
- 31 March 2012
Why won't capitalists stand up for capitalism?
Our real problem is that unfettered capitalism hasn't recently been tried. So why won't capitalism defend itself?
- 16 March 2012
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