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| Friday 23 December 2011 |
A fixation with inequality, a poverty of understanding
Bankrupt Britain could have been a fascinating snapshot of the UK today if only its authors’ prejudices hadn’t got in the way.
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| Friday 9 December 2011 |
A fixation with inequality, a poverty of understanding
Bankrupt Britain could have been a fascinating snapshot of the UK if only its authors’ prejudices hadn’t got in the way.
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| Friday 25 November 2011 |
Things can only get better with economic growth
As a new book by Charles Kenny shows, human welfare has not improved over the past 200 years in spite of economic growth but because of it.
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| Friday 11 November 2011 |
Things can only get better with economic growth
As a new book shows, human welfare has not improved over the past 200 years in spite of economic growth but because of it.
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| Friday 20 May 2011 |
The Malthusians who masquerade as Marxists
The alternatives to the mythical creed of ‘neo-liberalism’ offered by David Harvey and other radical authors sound far, far worse.
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| Thursday 28 April 2011 |
The Malthusians who masquerade as Marxists
Both radical and mainstream authors now frequently attack ‘neo-liberalism’ and ‘free-market fundamentalism’. But their alternative to these largely mythical creeds would be far, far worse.
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| Wednesday 26 January 2011 |
Israel and Palestine: more divided than ever
Daniel Ben-Ami reports from the Holy Land on the key achievement of the so-called peace process: the intensified partitioning of Arabs and Jews.
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| Monday 20 December 2010 |
Freakonomics: more self-help than economics
The movie of the best-selling book is a popular taster of a worrying obsession with individual behaviour.
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| Friday 26 November 2010 |
Chasing after zombies
Anatole Kaletsky’s sweeping survey of the various eras of capitalism is ambitious. But in obsessing over so-called free-market fundamentalism he misses what is causing the current crisis.
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| Thursday 21 October 2010 |
It’s not just Tories who want austerity
We can’t make a convincing case against austerity without challenging today’s cultural aversion to prosperity.
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| Tuesday 28 September 2010 |
Yes, Vince Cable is an anti-capitalist…
...but of the narrow-minded, misanthropic, austerity-loving variety, not the future-oriented Marxist kind.
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| Wednesday 11 August 2010 |
Why is the bible of capitalism cheering on Chinese workers?
Daniel Ben-Ami is not convinced by the outbreak of workers’ solidarity in The Economist, the FT and amongst writers normally so fond of austerity.
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| Friday 30 July 2010 |
Delivering an ‘Aftershock’ to the economic debate
Philippe Legrain’s Aftershock is a lucid and open-minded introduction to the world economy. But it makes the common mistake of blaming bankers for the current economic crisis.
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| Wednesday 23 June 2010 |
There is an alternative to austerity: economic growth
Neither the Budget’s authors nor the Budget-knockers have a vision for reinvigorating the economy. So here are my ideas.
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| Friday 28 May 2010 |
The pseudo-radical war on economic growth
The ‘Sarkozy report’ on the problems with using GDP as a measure of progress reveals an elite incapable of seeing the link between economic growth and improved human welfare.
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| Thursday 6 May 2010 |
The Greek crisis and the blame game
Greece’s woes have revealed a Euro-elite more interested in blame-shifting than tackling the economic crisis.
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| Monday 22 March 2010 |
There is an alternative to austerity
Despite what politicians say, the way to reduce the UK’s fiscal deficit is to boost production, not curb consumption.
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| Monday 8 March 2010 |
Dubai: the warrior-victims strike again?
Israel’s policy of assassinating its enemies springs from its culture of victimhood rather than any political strength.
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| Friday 26 February 2010 |
It’s better to be a dissatisfied human than a satisfied pig
It sounds like an unquestionably good idea, yet officialdom’s promotion of happiness and wellbeing is driven by disdain for economic growth and a penchant for conformism.
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| Friday 19 February 2010 |
Let’s make this an age of abundance, not austerity
Prosperity’s critics are demonising material desires and calling for governments to elevate happiness over growth. It’s time to fight back.
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