Category: Economics/Class Relations

How to Make the Economy Grow

8 February, 2025 Sebastian Wang Mills, John. How to Make the Economy Grow John Mills Institute for Prosperity July 2024 ISBN: 978-1-3999-9156-8. John Mills has been writing for many years about the sluggish and even non-existent growth of the British economy. There is much he says with which […]

Trump’s billionaires will accelerate American decline. Dr. Richard Wolff explains how.

On the campaign trail and beyond, Donald Trump and MAGA right have repeatedly presented themselves as the true representatives of America’s beleaguered working class. And yet, like the Capitol rotunda on Inauguration Day, Trump’s administration is filled with billionaires, mega-millionaires, and corporate oligarchs whose staggering wealth is increasing […]

How to Fire Your Boss

How to Fire Your Boss Anyone who works for a living knows how degrading and alienating it is to be yelled at for doing your job, maybe just because your boss is having a bad day. The daily grind devours our time, exhausts our energies, and reduces our […]

Work is Warping Politics

Americans rarely touch their government directly. They engage with the American system at work. Jan 29, 2025 The modern world of work is a great black hole warping politics. Few people realize this, because you can’t see a black hole directly with your eyes—they don’t give off light. […]

Tarriffs? Income Taxes? Both?

Read in browser February 1, 2025 Senior Fellow Judy Shelton breaks down the connection between oil prices and inflation on Fox Business. Don’t Substitute Tariffs for Income Taxes: You’ll Get Both Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness argues with co-author David R. Henderson argue […]

Consumption as Cancer to Living Beings

by Rose Sybil Rose Sybil Feb 01, 2025 Rose Sybil argues that humanity’s overreliance on technique, driven by the illusions of humanism and consumption, is destabilizing ecosystems, disrupting cultural bonds, and accelerating societal and environmental entropy, necessitating a fundamental shift in human organization to restore balance and preserve […]

Silicon Fen? More Like Silicon Fantasy

30 January, 2025 Sebastian Wang Rachel Reeves plans to create a “British Silicon Valley” between Oxford and Cambridge. Forgive me if I don’t get excited. This is yet another example of political grandstanding masquerading as visionary policymaking. It’s a headline-grabber, designed to make us forget that Britain’s economy […]

Neoliberalism Never Happened

January 29, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, The Trump Administration has now had a full week under its belt, but it is still uncertain how it will be staffed. […]