Blog - Adam Smith Institute

That a government is not doing what we consider sensible does not surprise us in the slightest:

Back at Woods Hole, a few buildings over from Subhas, Ken Buesseler, a professor emeritus of marine...

We hear enough of how appalling capitalism is in this modern world. We should, perhaps, pay more attention to the disasters that befall those in the absence of capitalism:

More than 100 people have died afte...

Governments raise duty on tobacco and alcohol on the assumption that higher rates mean higher revenue. The evidence of the last five years suggests the opposite. Tobacco duty has risen seven times since 2020. Rolling tobacco duty is up 115%. And total tobacco duty revenue has fallen from £10.4 billion to £7.9 billion. The government has pushed the rate up the Laffer curve and...

There are things it is possible to do and which are also things we might not want to do - however possible they are:

UK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report

Food Found...

Why do we require a global organisation to reduce inequality if inequality is reducing without a global organisation?

Forty prominent progressive academics are urging Andy Burnham’s go...