Not PC

  " T he Greens are proposing one of the most aggressive tax regimes of its kind anywhere in the developed world, resulting in a broad-...

The IEA's Kristian Niemitz reviews Johan Norberg's important new book. I first came across Johan Norberg almost exactly 20 years ag...

“P eople who focus on inequality often seem to forget a historical fact: market economies have allowed a great many people to get rich and t...

Since Revenue Minister David Parker is such a fan of French statistics-diddler Thomas Piketty (the man who claims  the world is ripe for “p...

  Guest post by Philipp Bagus Thomas Piketty´s book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century , on growing inequality in capitalism, has become...

I thought you might like to know that one of the top contenders for Labour’s vacant presidency position is Professor Nigel Haworth, from Au...

Here’s what’s on this evening at the Auckland Uni Economics Group. Why not head along? On Monday the NZ Herald revealed that ANZ Ne...

The spectre of Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century still stalks world best-seller lists, learned pontification on National R...

Guest post by Andrew Wilson Ludwig Von Mises’ treatise on why capitalism sits in the dock, falsely accused of various crimes against hum...

In all the criticism and commentary on Frenchman Thomas Piketty’s criticism of ‘ Capital in the 21st Century ,’ one very important thing has...

French rockstar economist Thomas Piketty has responded to his critics, mostly to the Financial Times who claimed his data is shoddy, cherry...

“Up until Giles's shock revelations, Capital in the Twenty- First Century was the liberal-left's philosopher's stone: ...

“[Working with new money is] much more interesting than old. People with old money are nearly always having to be adjusted downwards.” ...

Guest post by  Michael D. Tanner F rom President Obama to Paul Krugman, Thomas Piketty to Elizabeth Warren, the American Left has adopted ...

My favourite living economist George Reisman responded briefly last week to Thomas Piketty’s much-discussed  tract on inequality, and substa...