A UK Employment Tribunal has ruled that drivers who use the Uber platform should be regarded as employees. This qualifies them for various statutory benefits, including the national minimum “living wage,” paid rest periods, and holiday pay. The Tribunal’s ruling constitutes an existential threat to the sharing economy in Britain, but it rests on a […]
This Thursday, the US Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing on “Lessons from the past” in implementing free trade deals. There’s a lot to learn from the past, and much of that will tell us about where we’re going with free trade – in particular whether it is actually free any more, or just […]
This article was originally published by the Foundation for Economic Education, and can be found here. When I told a friend some years ago that I was going to be working in a think tank, he replied, “Huh. I always wondered who cleaned those out.” Not a surprising reaction. Think tanks are often perceived as […]
This article was originally published by the Foundation for Economic Education, and can be found here. Affordable energy is fundamental to what economist Deirdre McCloskey calls the “Great Fact” of the explosion of human welfare. It remains central to the reduction of absolute poverty. Yet, some Western governments are working to increase energy costs, purportedly to […]
