by Michael O'Dwyer Connolly | Feb 12, 2018 | Articles
In the years before its collapse, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics had an underdeveloped and horrifically mismanaged economy. The Russian Federation inherited the vast majority of this mess in 1991. With the collapse of the USSR, many well-to-do figures within...
by Samuel Gregg | Nov 2, 2017 | Articles
“Of all things, an indiscreet tampering with the trade of provisions is the most dangerous, and it is always worst in the time when men are most disposed to it.” —Edmund Burke It’s hardly a secret that free markets have fallen out of favor among conservatives...
by Kevin O'Rourke | Oct 30, 2017 | Articles
Indy100, the Independent’s sort of sideshow for the less literate, was delighted with Ryanair’s woes last month. “Theresa May hails the free market hours after Ryanair cancels flights of 400,000 people,” it crowed, the implication obviously being that if the free...
by Stephen Murray | Sep 26, 2017 | Articles
Everything, except perhaps human ignorance, is finite. A telling aphorism for sure, but in the matter of economics and governance, ignorance of finite means to meet our ends is the cause of many bad outcomes. Modern politics in the post war era, marked as it is by...
by Cormac Lucey | Sep 15, 2017 | Articles
When it comes to economics, we are regularly told by voices on the political left that, since the foundation of the state, Ireland has been dominated by two right-wing political parties and that it is high time that the country’s left unite to put them out of power....
