Summary Both the UK and the EU have made commitments to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Political leaders all over … Continue reading “Carbon Conundrum: How to save climate change policy from government failure”

Summary The cost-of-living crisis has been worsened by longer-term structural factors, beyond the immediate issues posed by loose monetary policy … Continue reading “Cutting Through: How to address the cost of living crisis”

Summary Networks of intellectual elites are a powerful, slow-motion route for introducing new ideas into a society, and this has … Continue reading “A Silent Revolution: The intellectual origins of cancel culture”

Summary This summer is seeing an upsurge in strikes and threats of strikes, with the number and scale of disputes … Continue reading “Summertime Blues: Unions, strikes and the law in 2022”

Subscribe to Economic Affairs Editorial Introduction (page 209) by J R Shackleton Original Articles Attitudes towards the rich in China, … Continue reading “Economic Affairs (42.2)”

Summary The government proposes to give a new Digital Markets Unit (DMU) powers to regulate firms in digital markets. This … Continue reading “Powering Up: How will the Digital Markets Unit affect competition and innovation?”

Summary The UK Treasury has been consulting on the concept of an ‘online sales tax’, or OST, which could raise … Continue reading “Why an online sales tax could be more trouble than it is worth”

Summary The Online Safety Bill establishes a new regulatory regime for digital platforms intended to improve online safety. The Bill … Continue reading “An Unsafe Bill: How the Online Safety Bill threatens free speech, innovation and privacy”

Foreword In the eighteenth century, English cleric, economist and demographer Thomas Malthus claimed that population growth was bound to outrun … Continue reading “The People Paradox: Does the world have too many or too few people?”