Responses to Bagus and Howden’s “quibbles” on free banking
Regular readers may recollect Philipp Bagus and David Howden’s recent publication in the QJAE, where they provide a critique of fractional reserve free banking….
Study on Corporation Tax
Earlier this week, The Taxpayers’ Alliance published a policy brief that I wrote on corporation tax. The report looks at the efficiency, fairness, simplicity,…
A Note on the Notice of Withdrawal Clause
Regular readers of this site may be aware of a debate relating to the contractual devices that banks might use to ensure that they…
Freedom Week 2011
For several years now there has been a highly successful seminar held at Sidney Sussex college, at the University of Cambridge. Around 30 undergraduates…
Live blogging the 2011 Budget
Today is the 2011 Budget, and I will be live blogging it for Reuters. Click here to follow live coverage throughout the day. As…
In praise of experimental economics
This blog recently republished an article by Frank Shostak asking “Is there a place for experimental economics?” I could write a lengthy defense of…
Monetarists’ blind spot on quantitative easing
My latest article for the IEA: The Austrian school agrees that monetary policy errors were the cause of the recession, but believes that these…
Federal Reserve Accounting and Its Solvency
A good article from Jeffrey Rogers Hummel at George Mason’s History News Network: The Federal Reserve’s H.4.1 Release for January 6, 2011, announced an…
Robust Political Economy
A promising new book from Mark Pennington: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy This important book offers a comprehensive defence of classical…
Banking, Inflation and Recessions
The Adam Smith Institute has recently published videos of their Liberty Lectures, held at Cass Business School last August. The room was overflowing with…