Sam Bowman: How to revitalise towns
Politics should work with market signals, not against them – but that doesn’t have to mean giving up on towns or the people who live in them.
Sam Bowman: Aping the Eurozone’s overly tight monetary policy would be the quickest way to a Corbyn government
Replying to Alex Morton’s column of a week ago, the ASI’s Senior Fellow argues that the response to the financial crisis was imperfect, but more right than wrong.
Sam Bowman: There are much better ways to help low earners than the Living Wage
George Osborne ignored the well-justified caution which had kept minimum wage rises so modest, and the evidence that his ploy will harm employment growth.
Sam Bowman: Why we at the Adam Smith Institute are best described as neoliberals – not libertarians
It’s time to defend and promote the ideas that have helped to bring globalisation – and in turn brought more wealth, peace and opportunity to billions of people.
Sam Bowman: It’s Tax Freedom Day. At last.
It isn’t a great sign that the other country marking today in this way is Italy.
Sam Bowman: Today is Tax Freedom Day. Let’s celebrate it – and hope it comes earlier in 2016
For the first time this year, the money Britons earn will go into their pockets, not the taxman’s.
Sam Bowman: An answer to Salmond’s problem. Scotland could use sterling – without a central bank
What works for Panama with the dollar could work after independence with the pound.
Sam Bowman: Kathy Gyngell is wrong. Illegal drugs should be legalised
Prohibition means putting thousands of people in jail, giving criminal records to hundreds of thousands more, and exposing drug users to unnecessary risk.