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By: Sam Bowman

Sam Bowman is director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics and a senior fellow of the Adam Smith Institute

  • DEBATE: Is Sadiq Khan right to refuse to expand London’s congestion charge zone?

    Is Sadiq Khan right to refuse to expand London’s congestion charge zone?

    Is Sadiq Khan right to refuse to expand London’s congestion charge zone? JOIN THE DEBATE Wes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, says YES When Boris Johnson was mayor of London he promised Londoners: “I am not going to be having any more congestion charges”. Yet now, his government is trying to force exactly that [...]

  • DEBATE: Should government pay wages to workers affected by coronavirus?

    DEBATE: Should government pay wages to workers affected by coronavirus?

    Should the government pay wages to workers whose incomes have been affected by the coronavirus crisis? YES – Sam Bowman, director of competition policy at the International Centre for Law & Economics. This is a very unusual recession. It is self-inflicted, and will hit highly productive and less productive businesses alike. To allow them to [...]

  • As Trump packs his cabinet with leading executives, are business people any good at politics?

    Sam Bowman, executive director of the Adam Smith Institute, says Yes. Well, it’d be hard to do worse than the politicians. And Trump’s appointments make some sense. Exxon’s Rex Tillerson, in particular, is experienced at negotiating with the leaders of tinpot kleptocracies – a useful skill in a secretary of state. Mitt Romney’s business success [...]

  • As experts forecast a £100bn budget black hole, should the chancellor prioritise deficit reduction in his Autumn Statement?

    November 17, 2016

    Sam Bowman, executive director at the Adam Smith Institute, says Yes. Whatever we borrow today we’ll eventually have to pay for tomorrow. So government borrowing just defers taxation – there really is no free lunch. It’s worse than that, though. Government borrowing crowds out private borrowing, so the more the state borrows for itself, the [...]

  • Is Lord Lawson right that Britain should not try to negotiate a special trade deal with the European Union?

    August 31, 2016

    Grace Lievesley, research manager at Global Britain, says Yes. The UK is the fifth largest economy in the world and now, following our decision to leave the declining European Union, we should aspire to become the fourth or third largest economy. To do this, we need to expand our business in fast-growing markets while holding on [...]

  • As calls for the chancellor to apply some fiscal stimulus grow, do we really want more public spending?

    August 8, 2016

    Scott Corfe, director at the Centre for Economics and Business Research, says Yes. The UK economy is set to slow drastically over the coming quarters, with the Centre for Economics and Business Research expecting GDP growth to decline from about 1.5 per cent this year to less than 0.5 per cent in 2017. A recession – [...]

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