How feasible is a ‘charter city of refugees’ in Australia?
In the second half of the 20th century, Singapore used the right institutions to go through economic development faster than any city in history before it - despite being home to varied racial and...
View ArticleGrowth more important than unions in the long run
How much does it matter whether we have labour unions or not? In the popular imagination labour unions are a significant factor in the incomes of ordinary people and a major reason we don’t endure the...
View ArticleGrow out of it!
Yesterday I wrote about how exponential economic growth has a much larger impact on employee welfare than unions can hope to. Well low wages isn’t the only problem economic growth can solve! Economist...
View ArticleLet my people grow
Greg Clark in A Farewell to Alms: “The focus on material conditions in this history will strike some as too narrow, too incidental to vast social changes over the millennia. Surely our material riches...
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