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20 Mar 2026
Opinion

Regulating Artificial Intelligence: An Economic Imperative

AI generates textbook market failures: negative externalities, information asymmetries, and competitive concentration. The economic case for regulation is strong, and the window for effective action is narrowing.

By Eleanor Hughes

20 Mar 2026
Opinion

Against AI Regulation: The Innovation Cost We Cannot Afford

Premature AI regulation will entrench incumbents, drive research offshore, and fail to address actual harms. Existing laws are sufficient; targeted enforcement is better than new frameworks.

By Alexander Escala

10 Mar 2026
Opinion

Raise the Minimum Wage: The Economic Case

Decades of evidence show that carefully implemented minimum wage increases lift incomes without the job destruction critics predict. The monopsony argument is compelling, and the distributional case is stronger than ever.

By Alexander Escala

10 Mar 2026
Opinion

Against a Higher Minimum Wage: The Economic Case

A higher minimum wage is not the most efficient tool for reducing poverty. Better-targeted instruments exist, and the employment costs - especially for vulnerable workers and small businesses - are higher than advocates admit.

By Eleanor Hughes

15 Feb 2026
Opinion

In Defence of Free Trade

The empirical case for free trade remains robust. Its distributional consequences require management - but the answer is redistribution policy, not protectionism.

By Alexander Escala

15 Feb 2026
Opinion

The Limits of Free Trade Orthodoxy

The China Shock literature, the pandemic supply chain crisis, and the political backlash against liberalisation all point to the same conclusion: free trade orthodoxy is incomplete.

By Eleanor Hughes

15 Feb 2025
Analysis

Carbon Market Fragmentation and the Challenge of Global Climate Coordination

An examination of the growing patchwork of carbon pricing mechanisms and their implications for climate ambition.

By Eleanor Hughes

6 Feb 2025
News

Bank of England Cuts Rates to 4.5% as Inflation Returns to Target

The MPC votes 7-2 to cut Bank Rate for the third consecutive time, bringing it to 4.5% and signalling a cautious but sustained path towards looser monetary policy.

By Eleanor Hughes

15 Mar 2024
Opinion

AI and Labour Markets: Beyond the Technopanic

The debate about artificial intelligence and employment is too important to be left to either starry-eyed optimists or catastrophists. A sober assessment of the evidence is overdue.

By Eleanor Hughes

10 Mar 2024
Analysis

The Housing Affordability Crisis: Comparing Policy Responses Across the OECD

From Vienna's social housing model to Singapore's HDB scheme, different countries have taken strikingly different approaches to housing affordability. What can Britain learn from international experience?

By The Consilium Editorial Team