
How minimum wage is a magnet for migration
The minimum wage and the law of unintended consequence IN RECENT YEARS, British governments of both political hues – Conservative and Labour – have significantly

The minimum wage and the law of unintended consequence IN RECENT YEARS, British governments of both political hues – Conservative and Labour – have significantly

TO SAY that Rachel Reeves’ first sixteen months as Chancellor of the Exchequer have not been an unqualified success is something of an understatement. Since

Cognitive biases in seven strategic decisions that led to Culloden HERBERT SIMON was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976 for (to quote the

IN THE run-up to the EU referendum on June 23rd, you could hardly move without hearing prophecies of doom by the Great and the Good

THE NEWS that Britain’s sovereign debt has been downgraded comes as no surprise to those of us who have followed the Bank of England’s monetary

THE BANK OF ENGLAND’S report to the Treasury on August 23rd, The Distributional Effects of Asset Purchases, looks flimsy at best. Gone are the bold

ANOTHER WEEK, another downgrade in the Bank of England’s forecasts for the British economy. Last year, the Bank forecast that the UK economy would grow