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%”

Last week saw a violent confrontation between gypsies/travellers and the police as the former were evicted from an illegal camp site … Continue reading “Gypsies, land use planning and the tyranny of social democracy”

Amartya Sen is a great economist and social philosopher whose willingness to recognise a central role for market institutions in … Continue reading “Amartya Sen as Paternalist”

Segments of the conservative press in the UK are currently running a concerted campaign against very minor proposals by the … Continue reading “Urban Sprawl as Government Failure”

Many government interventions in markets though they are often justified in terms of the ‘public interest’ work to the disproportionate … Continue reading “Urban Planning and the Poor”

The IEA has recently published articles by Mark Pennington on the subject of Ha Joon Chang’s 23 Things They Don’t … Continue reading “Protectionism is an economic blind alley”

In this third and final of the series on Ha Joon Chang’s critique of ‘free market economics’ I examine his … Continue reading “Ha Joon Chang: confused on bounded rationality and economic regulation”

My first post on 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism addressed Ha Joon Chang’s dubious debating tactics when … Continue reading “Ha Joon Chang: Wrong on Free Trade, Markets and Development”

Professor Ha Joon Chang has become something of a hero to those who champion heterodox economic theory and who rail … Continue reading “What Ha Joon Chang doesn’t tell you about ‘free market economics’”