With inflation soaring, trust in governments plummeting, and the global economy teetering on the brink of collapse, one might expect to see the masses out in the streets, calling for the heads of their rulers. But instead of rage and …
Prof David Paton: New evidence on the impact of the English care home vaccine mandate
This new research and paper, which Prof David Paton has undertaken with a colleague, examines the impact of the English care home vaccine mandate on vaccine uptake, care home staffing and Covid deaths. David also assesses the overall ethics, costs …
Prof Paul Frijters: Wellbeing cost-effectiveness analysis, applied to Covid policies
Wellbeing Cost-Effectiveness (CE) is a recently developed tool to evaluate and appraise the effects of large policies with effects in many areas. It builds on the huge literature concerned with the analysis of the question “how satisfied are individuals with …
The Controlled Demolition of the Economy
As I’m sure you’ve seen, there have been many, many such stories circulating in the financial press in recent months, all touting similarly bleak numbers. But it’s important to keep in mind that these numbers are just that: numbers. The …
Corporations aren’t greedy enough
American political debates over inflation have settled into predictable — and mostly unhelpful — patterns. On one side, “neoliberal” Democrats such as Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman argue that President Biden’s Covid stimulus bill was too aggressive, causing the economy …
Neoliberalism died before Ukraine
The neoliberal order that triumphed on a global scale in the Nineties and 2000s aspired to the free movement of goods, capital, people, and information throughout the world. Unfettered capitalism would release the global economy from arbitrary constraints, and if …
Thread by Piers Robinson @PiersRobinson1 Feb 18, 2022
What is now happening in #Ottawa is the direct result of a broad-ranging political and economic agenda, being implemented under the cover of COVID-19, and which is leading us toward tyranny @Tim_Hayward_ @timtron2020 @ggreenwald @glenninluton #TogetherDeclaration thread: https://t.co/HkKm3PQbjX
— Piers …
