Imagine if a sports journalist regularly described Sergio Agüero as a Manchester United player and insisted that West Bromwich Albion … Continue reading “On inequality, the BBC’s headline doesn’t line up with the facts”

Listen to the Dear Leader Jeremy Corbyn and his fellow travellers, and one would think that economic inequality in the … Continue reading “Everything the left thinks it knows about inequality is wrong”

In the film Groundhog Day, the protagonist is trapped in an infinite time-loop, constantly repeating the same experiences over and … Continue reading “Oxfam would rather make us all poorer than feed the world”

I have a friend in New Zealand, whose real name isn’t Tim, and who is unusually witty. This gives Tim … Continue reading “Standard socialist fallacies #2: “Ability is power””

Oxfam began as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief. It still does valuable disaster relief work today, but it often … Continue reading “Oxfam is more interested in eradicating wealth than in eradicating poverty”

Consider this thought experiment. You have been transported back to 1912 and have the power to change the course of … Continue reading “Want a more equal society? Be careful what you wish for”

Every once in a while, Oxfam likes to talk about inequality in the UK, though God knows what that has … Continue reading “Oxfam’s inequality fabrications”

As a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs explains this week, the tale we are told about inequality in … Continue reading “Is envy of the super-rich by the rest of the rich driving the inequality debate?”

At Europe Economics, we recently completed a major report on the Sharing Economy. Looking at the growing research literature, it … Continue reading “Three things everyone knows about the Sharing Economy that are probably wrong”