Our latest edition of The Counterbalance looks at the rich and troubling history of "intellectual property" protections, and how the current system is in effect a way for dominant firms to use their power to levy private taxes on the…
We recently signed a letter pushing back against UK government plans to introduce "competitiveness" as a statutory objective for financial regulators. The letter was co-signed by a number of eminent economists from around the world. And the issue has global…
We have spent considerable time exploring and explaining the differences between healthy competition, which delivers benefits for all, as we have shown in our recent Telecoms report; and harmful competition, where companies compete on the basis of what economists called…