Does material inequality matter? To ask such a question risks incredulous gasps from those whose daily diet of news includes … Continue reading “The Left is wrong: People care about fairness more than inequality”

It’s all about fairness, that slippery, subjective term which dominates so much of our political discourse. Following his resignation from … Continue reading “IDS is right to attack protection of pensioner benefits”

Alvin Rabushka, co-author of the Hall-Rabushka Flat Tax proposal, speaks to ieaTV to explain his proposals for a flat tax. … Continue reading “Interview with Alvin Rabushka”

It’s often said that modern day politicians lack conviction – that is, they are afraid of expressing their firmly held … Continue reading “Shifting justifications for the 50p tax rate”

Everyone remembers this situation from their student days: You are in an oral exam. Until just now, you felt reasonably … Continue reading “Cameron’s welfare speech: why the critics are so upset”

If ‘status anxiety’ is as big a threat to individual well-being as many egalitarians seem to think then logically they … Continue reading “Sex, luck and distributive justice”

Recently I looked at some data on the changes in top division/Premier League footballers (soccer players for Americans) pay between … Continue reading “Footballers and the Top 1%”

A group of American conservatives have set up an initiative called ‘We are the 53%‘, echoing the Occupy movement’s ‘We … Continue reading “The 99ers and the 53ers: when two groups quarrel, a third rejoices”

The Liberal Democrats  have been telling us they want to “hardwire fairness back into national life.” Britain, for all its many … Continue reading “The misleading and dismal concept of “fairness””