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Acton Institute - 1 Dec 2022. Bringing you the best writing on politics, economics, markets and ideas underpinned by a commitment to make the case for popular capitalism.
Business is paying the price for trusting Labour - CapX
2 days ago · Conservatives found the –understandable and pragmatic – degree to which business embraced the Labour Party woundingly frustrating, but they had ruined their own reputation. Kemi Badenoch’s new shadow cabinet includes people with genuine business experience and credibility. The shadow chancellor Mel Stride founded and grew a successful ...
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CapX brings you the best writing on politics, economics, technology and ideas. We’re here to make the case for popular capitalism – for markets, innovation, growth and competition. CapX argues for policies and ideas that will enhance freedom, choice and …
Africa needs free trade, not reparations - CapX
Nov 6, 2024 · The African Continental Free Trade Area could lift over 100,000,000 people out of poverty. The only path towards bringing individuals out of poverty is economic freedom. Attempts to develop troubled nations with foreign cash have done little to improve their affairs. Last month’s Commonwealth summit in Samoa was not supposed to be about the past.
The world’s biggest polluters are killing us – they should pay for it
2 days ago · It is high time we expand the list of countries that have to pay climate finance to include the world’s biggest polluters, such as China, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The COP climate conferences have happened every year since they were established at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. They set the framework for how we globally deal with climate ...
CapX Books of 2021
Dec 20, 2021 · John Ashmore. Much of my reading this year has been in aid of The CapX Podcast. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Woke, Inc was a fascinating dissection of the utterly shameless way that Wall St institutions have co-opted a social justice agenda to enhance their own power and avoid scrutiny, in an unholy marriage of convenience with left-wing pressure groups.. A couple of books on economics also stood out ...
Nimby Watch: A look inside the Nimby soul - CapX
May 7, 2024 · Consider the story of Mr A. Gerko, a man with a very large house in Buckinghamshire who in 2022 built a pond in his garden. The inevitable result is that he’s spent the last two years fighting the objections of both council and parish councils, and been the subject of two largely identical stories in the Bucks Free Press.
The CapX Podcast: In defence of the rich - CapX
May 5, 2023 · The CapX Podcast: In defence of the rich. Here at CapX we love an unfashionable cause – and in a cost of living crisis, few demographics are less popular than those who seem to be struggling less. But we’re also fans of basic economic concepts, and with the tax burden the highest it’s been since the era of state socialism under Attlee ...
What CapX is reading this summer - CapX
Aug 9, 2024 · The must-have beach read of the summer, though, is my own book, A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines On Our Maps, which tells the stories of several dozen lines on maps, from the unification of Ancient Egypt to the very modern debate about where space begins. The TLS described me as “genuinely funny”, so there.