It’s “Living Wage Week”. For seven days, the Living Wage Foundation’s campaign for employers to pay workers at least £8.25 … Continue reading “We need a ‘Living Cost Week’, not a Living Wage Week”

On Monday I appeared on a (recorded) Channel 4 ‘infotainment’ programme called ‘How Rich Are You?’ The appearance was sold … Continue reading “Ten mistakes that permeated the Channel 4 ‘How Rich Are You?’ programme on inequality (part 1)”

In a more rational world, planning reform would not be a tribal issue. It would, on the contrary, be an … Continue reading “A simple answer to the housing shortage: Relax the planning strait-jacket”

Tax is the single biggest area of expenditure for low-income groups and indirect taxes in particular are a major cause … Continue reading “Sin taxes increase inequality and disproportionately harm the poor”

Earlier this week, I outlined the red herrings that distort the debate about low pay and the cost of living. … Continue reading “A real agenda to reduce the cost of living”

Since the publication of Kristian Niemietz’s seminal work Redefining the Poverty Debate in 2012, many of us have been arguing … Continue reading “The red herrings which distort the cost of living debate”

In this new video for ieaTV, IEA Director General Mark Littlewood explains how liberalising the UK’s suffocating planning laws would … Continue reading “Through the roof”

With low productivity, high inflation and terrible industrial relations, in 1977, Britain was a basket case. So that year, businessman … Continue reading “Planning liberalisation is the closest thing there is to an economic silver bullet”

Most politicians and commentators think the ‘cost of living’ and its inverse ‘low pay’ are areas of serious concern for … Continue reading “What Owen Jones gets wrong (part 2 of 2: tax credits, low pay and a ‘Living Wage’)”