Boris Johnson’s speech and the EU’s draft negotiating mandate issued on the same day illustrate both how close the parties … Continue reading “The Greenwich reset: a future UK-EU free trade agreement”

One of the larger benefits those of a liberal economics bent often ascribe to trade deals is that they provide … Continue reading “What trade deals do and do not mean for domestic laws”

YES – says Shanker Singham, Head of the International Trade and Competition Unit, Institute of Economic Affairs When the UK … Continue reading “IEA debate: After Brexit, is it time to get the government out of agriculture, and embrace free trade and free markets?”

Political earthquakes on the scale of Brexit claim scalps. History suggests Brexit will be a graveyard not just for today’s … Continue reading “The Brexit litmus test: too many politicians, not enough statesmen”

Game theory, or the economics of bargaining under conditions of rational decision-making, has been a popular branch of the dismal … Continue reading “Can game theory help to explain the UK’s current Brexit difficulties?”

James Dyson’s decision to relocate the headquarters of his company to Singapore has sparked a hyperbolic and predictable outcry. Dyson, … Continue reading “The Dyson outrage is a load of hot air”

Around the time the US Congress debated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), opinion surveys on the subject … Continue reading “It is perfectly possible to liberalise our immigration system without antagonising the public”

The old joke “Why did the chicken cross the road?” (“To get to the other side”) might have come out … Continue reading “Making the case for free markets is too important to be derailed by Brexit”

Faced with an avowedly socialist Labour party on the one hand, and an increasingly statist, illiberal Conservative party on the … Continue reading “A “Global Britain” must embrace migration”