This article first appeared on the Institute of Economic Affairs Substack Have you heard about the Niemietz Diet? It is … Continue reading “On socialism and capitalism at different stages of economic development”

Every year on 8 December, Albanians celebrate Youth Day. On this day in 1990, brave students led protests that ultimately … Continue reading “Living Red: My father’s life under Hoxha’s Albania (Part 2)”

This review article by Stefan Beig was first published in the Jüdische Rundschau, a German-Jewish monthly magazine.   To this day, … Continue reading “Hitler – an anti-capitalist revolutionary?  The NSDAP leader never saw himself as right wing “

Two months ago, it was widely reported that Poland could economically overtake the UK by 2030. This was not the … Continue reading “Book review: “The road to socialism and back. An economic history of Poland, 1939-2019” by Peter J. Boettke, Konstantin Zhukov and Matthew Mitchel (Part 1)”

Our colleagues at the Fraser Institute in Canada, in cooperation with the Foundation for Teaching Economics in the US, the … Continue reading “What do British Millennials and Zoomers mean by “socialism”?”

What is socialism? If we go by the dictionary, this seems like a very straightforward and unambiguous matter. Merriam-Webster defines … Continue reading “What “socialism” means – and why it matters”

In his 1953 essay The Hedgehog and the Fox, the philosopher and political theorist Isaiah Berlin talked about what he saw … Continue reading “Of socialist hedgehogs and liberal foxes”

Today marks the 69th anniversary of the beginning of the East German uprising of 1953. It was the first of … Continue reading “What Bertolt Brecht had in common with today’s Millennial Socialists”

It has been three years since the release of my book Socialism – The Failed Idea That Never Dies. Since … Continue reading “Socialism – three years on”