“TfL’s effective ban on Uber represents a ‘dark day’ for consumers and drivers” By Shanker Singham, courtesy of IEA Transport for London’s effective ban on Uber in London represents a dark day for competition and progress in the UK. Uber – and other platforms like it – give consumers real alternatives […]
Tag: regulation
Better late than never: EU gears up to tackle money laundering
“A Major Step Toward Combating Money Laundering in Europe” By Nicolas Véron and Joshua Kirschenbaum, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute The struggle to combat money laundering in Europe took a momentous step forward on November 8 when the finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, and Spain put forward a joint position paper. […]
French pharmacists paid not to dispense drugs?
“Pharmacists Paid for Not Delivering Prescription Drugs?” By Phoebe Ann Moses, courtesy of Contrepoints Will pharmacists soon be paid for not dispensing prescription drugs from the doctor’s prescription? That’s what seems to be under discussion right now between pharmacists’ unions and health insurance. The doctors would be deprived of their authority to […]
Investment controls are bad for Switzerland, Europe, and the world
“A new authority that nobody needs” By Verena Parzer-Epp, Samuel Rutz, and Marco Salvi, courtesy of Avenir Suisse Around the globe, the instrument of investment control is currently experiencing a revival. Proponent argue investment controls are necessary to safeguard national security and economic interests, for example as protection against takeovers by emerging state-owned […]
Labour manifesto is a “step back into the dark ages”
“IEA responds to Labour Party’s manifesto” Courtesy of the IEA Commenting on the Labour manifesto, Director General at the Institute of Economic Affairs Mark Littlewood said: “With today’s tax burden now at a 50-year high, the Labour Party’s plan to hike taxes and borrow hundreds of billions of pounds cannot end well for […]
We Need to Defend Innovation in Latin America
By Federico Fernández, founder, Somos Innovación We live in an era where great things have happened thanks to innovation. Everybody loves innovation and recognizes that is a force for progress. With the exception of maybe North Korea, no government in the world has an official policy to prohibit innovation or harass innovative people. […]
Without reform the EU will self-destruct
“How to Destroy the European Union” By Prince Michael of Liechtenstein, courtesy of ECAEF and GIS Once, the “European idea” helped unite a war-weary continent. Now, overbearing central authorities, suffocating bureaucracies and reams of red tape are limiting the freedom that idea once promised. Europeans are losing trust in their […]
How to make the European Green New Deal work
By Grégory Claeys, Simone Tagliapietra, and Georg Zachmann, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute European Commission president-designate Ursula von der Leyen has made climate change a top priority, promising to propose a European Green Deal that would make Europe climate neutral by 2050. The European Green Deal should be conceived as a reallocation […]
Zero carbon rule would just make UK housing (even more) unaffordable
IEA: UK housing market needs “less red tape, not more” By Dr. Kristian Niemietz, courtesy of IEA Responding to the Labour Party’s pledge to make all new homes zero carbon within three years, Head of Political Economy at the Institute of Economic Affairs Dr Kristian Niemietz stated: What the UK housing market […]
Minimum wage hike led to less working time, higher prices in Germany
“Four years statutory minimum wage – an overview of the most important research findings” Courtesy of IAB It was the most radical reform of the German labor market since Agenda 2010: the introduction of the statutory minimum wage in 2015. At that time, science and practice contradicted each other in partly diametrically opposed […]