About Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall is Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute.

Recent Posts by Tim Worstall:

Why share buybacks are nothing to fear

Banning short selling stops the market from doing its job

Orkney, GDP and the trouble with quantifying the good life Whatever a survey tells us, the idea of a definitive measure of quality of life is mistaken

Over budget and out of date: The overwhelming case against HS2 The case for HS2 is built on 20th-century assumptions

Fighting poverty is less complicated than Oxfam thinks To complain about inequality in Singapore is to miss the point completely

Green Party policies would give us less leisure time – not more Specialisation and greater productivity, not government edict, give us leisure time

Tesco’s new discounter shows the rewards of the free market system A proper market system is what stands between capitalism and plutocracy

An illiquid housing market is holding Britain back A bigger private rented sector would be good for the employment rate

Economic development is a prerequisite for gender equality When nearly all children survive into adulthood, women undertake paid economic activity

The Rich List is evidence that capitalism isn’t broken 94 per cent of the 1,000 people on the Rich List are self-made

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