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I’ve been looking at cases where marketing hype has managed to create a craze for an at-best mediocre product. This is not to suggest that advertising is predatory; on the contrary, I think it provides a necessary service by providing information and allowing people to make choices.
In the everyday business o...
Good to find someone else finally admitting the basics about the water companies:
A sample size of one is small, obviousl...
Increasingly they will. The real question is whether they can do them more cheaply and reliably than human workers.
Britain faces labour shortages in sectors such as agriculture, warehousing, logistics, cleaning, food processing, and parts of retail and hospitality. Many of these jobs have historically been f...
We have been trying to think through this idea of charging both capital gains tax and also inheritance tax. We’re not wholly certain that we’ve quite, exactly, diagnosed the motivation here but we think that it’s becaus...
Britain's central problems are structural and political rather than technical. The solutions to most are widely understood, but the incentives to implement them are weak or perverse.
Growth has been anaemic for fifteen years. Planning restrictions strangle house-building, making labour immobile and consuming ...