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Economics

A re-cap of economic fundamentals

16th September 2025 Emile Woolf 0

References to ‘GDP’ proliferate in the business press and news. Perhaps it’s worth considering what it means. The letters stand for ‘Gross Domestic Product’, intending to signify the entire output of the economy of a country: the outputs [more…]

Economics

The Distraction of the “Gross National Product” Economic Metric

9th September 2025 Patrick Barron 0

For many years now it seems that the state of a nation’s economic health has been reduced, at least in the mainstream press, to one metric—Gross National Product (GDP). Despite rising prices, increasing public and [more…]

20th Century

Kill not cure: the economic prescriptions that failed

15th July 2025 Going Postal 0

Introduction In my essay ‘From Socialism to Welfarism: the Betrayal of the Working Class’, I observed that the early socialist thinkers developed their ideas at the peak of the industrial revolution.  Socialist theory was therefore [more…]

Business

GDP Tells Us Little about the Health of an Economy

28th July 2021 Patrick Barron 0

The government’s and the mainstream media’s favorite economic statistic is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If GDP goes up, then the economy is doing well. If GDP shrinks, then the economy is doing poorly, or so [more…]

Patrick Barron, Going Postal
Business

How Government Hides the Damage from the Covid-19 Lockdowns

16th March 2021 Patrick Barron 0

Do not believe government pronouncements that the economy is rebounding from very minimal damage caused by unprecedented Covid-19 inspired closures of businesses or that the damage was very  mild anyway. Government will use it favourite [more…]

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