23 Things We're Telling You About Capitalism VIII
Tim WorstallIn our eighth chapter Chang tells us that as capital is, despite Marxist insistences, national in some manner therefore we should be nationalist about capital. Whether or not we allow...
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Tim WorstallThe eleventh thing we've not been told about capitalism is so bizarre as to make me wonder whether Chang was proofread before publication. The layout of the free market position is that...
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Tim WorstallThing 13 is simply that trickle down economics doesn't work. Making the rich richer doesn't make everyone richer therefore we shouldn't be planning to make the rich richer. The whole thing...
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Tim WorstallOur fourteenth thing is simply that American executives get paid far too much money and that this is wrong. In itself this is proof that a market manner of doing things is ineffective: just...
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Tim WorstallIn Thing 17 Chang tells us that the current preoccupation with extending access to higher education is grossly wrong. It might well be true that more people should enjoy three years at the...
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Tim WorstallThe 21 st thing is that a larger government actually makes economies more flexible: thus we should have larger governments in order to increase the necessary flexibility of the economy. And...
View ArticleStupid, stupid, people
Tim WorstallThe question for today: are we actually ruled by fools?Half a million households in flood-prone neighbourhoods will see annual insurance bills rise by up to one third, even after they have...
View ArticleYes, let's abolish the census
Tim WorstallDanny Dorling is bemoaning the decision to abandon the census:It is only because the census is our most accurate count of the population that we can tell, using it, whether mortality rates,...
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Equality in death if not the time of it
Tim WorstallNew figures out from ONS means that the newspapers have an opportunity to point to the inequality of lifespan in Britain:A baby born in the North West of England will live on average two...
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Why is everyone shouting that the nuclear deal is so expensive?
Tim WorstallI have to admit that I'm not really getting all this screaming about how expensive the nuclear deal is. Just not getting it at all:Seven years ago, I collected all the available cost...
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