employment

Economic contractions harm human health, so governments should take that into account in their coronavirus policies

A specter haunts Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world: the specter of massive technological unemployment and, therefore, widespread immiseration.

Do people become losers because they get inked, or do they get inked because they’re losers. Which came first? The tattoo or being a loser?

The Great Recession and its aftermath produced a sharp decline in employment. Almost eight million more Americans would be working today if the labor force participation rate were unchanged from 2007.  Some economists suggest that video games may explain this decline.

Behold “Mother May I?” government. Where the private sector can’t do a thing, make a move, invent or innovate – until after the incompetent, pathetically slow government finally gets around to granting permission to do so. If we’re lucky – more likely than not, they’ll say Nay.