The Impact of the Bonus Culture on the UK Economy

World Economics • Vol. 21 • No. 3 • July–Sept 2020, 1st October 2020 Key Points • The decline in UK tangible investment since 2000 has led to a sharp decline in labour productivity and the trend growth rate of the UK economy. A similar decline in the US was caused by...

Investment and Unemployment

The future is unknown, but we should not count on being improbably lucky. Covid-19 has increased the need for a large increase in business tangible investment. This was necessary before the pandemic and has because essential to prevent a large rise in unemployment....

Zombies & Creative Destruction

Low interest rates have allowed companies to survive which would otherwise have become bankrupt. This truth has fathered a popular fallacy* which claims that it has a damaging impact on productivity, because these weak survivors, termed zombies, do not invest and as...

The Economics of Covid-19

Economics is not good at forecasting but better at cures. We need to switch from the former, which dominates the news, and concentrate on solving our major problem. Before the pandemic this was stagnation, we now face the prospect of a long-term decline in our...

Investment, Productivity, and the Bonus Culture

American Affairs Journal, Summer 2020 / Volume IV, Number 2, 21st May 2020 Weak growth is far and away the most important economic problem facing the United States. This problem is not simply the result of the financial crisis or the severe recession that followed;...