Growing pains

Andrew Van Sickle: The developed world has a growth and productivity crisis. Taxes are high, there is growing concern over income and wealth inequality, and the statist populist right and populist lef

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters ...

The centre left has joined the populist right in despairing of good government

This impressive book – based on an astonishingly wide-ranging reading, and written with adamantine clarity – deals far more with the critics than with capitalism. These critics fall roughly into three

“We’re gonna have growth like we’ve never seen before,” says Donald Trump. Growth! Growth! Growth! More jobs! More income! Abundance! Joy, from coast to coast! We know we’re on the road to joy when we

“[People] who never lived under socialism adore it, while everyone who lived under it hates it,”says Garry Kasparov, the Russian former chess grandmaster. New York’s enthusiasm for “democratic sociali