Economics
Explaining the “gender pay gap”
It does not exist — or, at least, not as you might have thought
Teaching leftists about tax
Sometimes, an argument about economic policy is like an oil spill
The broad influence of Aquinas
His influence has been felt in economics as well as philosophy and religion
The wrong kind of groupthink
Why do so many economists deny that the value of money is related to its quantity?
Crisis, what crisis?
The Spring Budget was a shameless manifesto of complacency and managed decline
Brexit and the dubious doppelgangers
Doppelganger models are an unreliable guide to how Britain would have looked had Brexit never happened
Why Britain needs more empty homes
The UK’s housing sector is straining at the seams; empty units and second houses are a sign of economic health
We have to be more precise about progress
What sort of progress do we want, and how are we going to get it?
The immigration merry-go-round
Britain’s discourse on migration is a timewasting charade
Planning to fail
Britain’s population is rapidly growing but the authorities seem implacably opposed to building new houses