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Budget 2013: The good, the bad and the ugly
It’s not saying much, but this was George Osborne’s best budget yet. These tax cuts are long overdue, though they are not significant enough to solve Britain’s growth problem. Cutting taxes for...
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What kinds of inequality should we be worried about?
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Don’t hate the players, hate the game
I usually agree with Mark Littlewood, Director-General of the IEA, so I was surprised by his piece in the Mail on Sunday this weekend. Mark proposes a public register of everyone claiming benefits of...
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Bleeding heart libertarianism and British politics
I have a chapter in a new publication by Liberal Reform, the classical liberal movement within the Lib Dems, in which I make the case that non-libertarians and libertarians may find a surprising...
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Now that we have more detail, Labour’s new ‘rent control’ policy is not quite as bad as I’d initially feared. Instead of the old school price ceilings that destroyed parts of New York City, Labour are...
View ArticleThe Negative Income Tax and Basic Income are pretty much the same thing
I’ve been talking about the Negative Income Tax lately, and equating it with the idea of a Basic Income. I think most of the policies’ respective advocates would deny that they’re the same policy. In...
View ArticleThe Living Wage campaign is wrong-footing the right
I’ve long taken an interest in the Living Wage campaign, both as an opponent of their ultimate goal but also as an admirer of their strategy. Their aim, I believe, is the statutory enforcement of a...
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Budget 2013: The good, the bad and the ugly
It’s not saying much, but this was George Osborne’s best budget yet. These tax cuts are long overdue, though they are not significant enough to solve Britain’s growth problem. Cutting taxes for...
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What kinds of inequality should we be worried about?
Most political theorists are egalitarians of some sort. While I personally find Derek Parfit’s argument in “Equality and Priority”—that egalitarianism sometimes says making others worse off without...
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Don’t hate the players, hate the game
I usually agree with Mark Littlewood, Director-General of the IEA, so I was surprised by his piece in the Mail on Sunday this weekend. Mark proposes a public register of everyone claiming benefits of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bleeding heart libertarianism and British politics
I have a chapter in a new publication by Liberal Reform, the classical liberal movement within the Lib Dems, in which I make the case that non-libertarians and libertarians may find a surprising...
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