George Monbiot in the Guardian on Friday suggested a frightening prospect about the food inflation we are currently experiencing. He says the problem has been…
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I am reading such a good book in the bath at the moment (this isn’t a backhanded compliment – I read nearly all my books…
Many criticise calls for further action by competition authorities as being anti-business. In this newsletter we argue that nothing could be further from the truth….
“There is no Country in Europe, which produces, and exports so great a Quantity of Beef, Butter, Tallow, Hydes and Wool, as Ireland does, and…
A recent profile of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in The Atlantic magazine argues that he is accumulating too much power in a way that is…
As the digital giants (FANGs) are described by Bloomberg as not so much disrupting the economy but “eating it alive”, there is evidence of a…
In this first issue of Open Markets Outlook, our newsletter on competition policy and entrepreneurship, we introduce the series and look at concerns and developments…
Whatever happened to free trade? I keep on asking this question given that the economic establishment is firmly committed to it in name, but acts…
My friend David Boyle recently wrote about the re-birth of liberal economics. In particular, the renewed attention on tackling monopoly power. As he mentioned, this trend has…
I used to be a member of the Lib Dem’s federal policy committee. I used to irritate Danny Alexander and other luminaries by claiming that…
The news yesterday that the doom-laden trade dispute, between the giant American planemaker Boeing and its small Canadian rival Bombardier, may have been resolved only…
Where are the best broadband services in the UK? Hands up anyone who guessed Hull. In 1904, “a quirk of history gave Hull and East…