Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 22/09/2025NEW SUBSTACK: In defence of FIFA's World Cup ticket pricing system.open.substack.comDynamic Pricing is Fair Play for the 2026 FIFA World CupOn FIFA vs. Mamdani 000
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 16/06/2025NEW POST: Zohran Mamdani's War on Prices. open.substack.com/pub/ryanbour...open.substack.comZohran Mamdani's “War on Prices”The NYC Mayoral candidate's pricing policies would bring a high efficiency cost 040
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 04/06/2025NEW COLUMN: What Farage gets right on economic policy. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...thetimes.comWhat Nigel Farage gets right about economic policyReform’s commitment to fiscal discipline is open to question, but the leader’s home truths on family taxation and net zero deserve acknowledgment 120
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 22/05/2025NEW COLUMN: Members of Congress deserved their downgrade. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...thetimes.comNo more excuses, US politicians deserve their ratings downgradeReal interest rates have surged over the past two years, but instead of tightening their belts American lawmakers plan to borrow more 020
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 15/05/2025NEW COLUMN: Trump's drug price controls could give Labour and the NHS another headache www.thetimes.com/business-mon...thetimes.comDonald Trump’s drug price controls give Labour another headacheThe US president’s order creates a new problem for Sir Keir Starmer. Will the UK pay more, or will patients lose access to treatments? 020
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 08/05/2025NEW COLUMN: Is the new right embracing degrowth economics? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...thetimes.comIs the new right embracing degrowth economics?Populists such as Donald Trump and Nigel Farage demand your sacrifice in the name of nationalist ambitions. Their ideals would mean the opposite of progress 010
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 07/01/2025New piece for @capx.co: The grooming gangs intervention by Musk isn't a one-off. With America's vibe shift, Starmer is a boogeyman to the U.S. right, representing the politics they hate. capx.co/is-britain-r...capx.coIs Britain ready for America's new political vibe?British politics is suddenly dominating conversation on X for all the wrong reasons. Tech titans like Elon Musk have stumbled onto the grooming-gangs scandal – a series of truly horrifying crimes that... 020
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024The Road To Price Controls, my long read on the last four years of Econ debates. High inflation was primarily caused by excessive macroeconomic (monetary & fiscal) stimulus. The failure to accept this is grounded in poor analysis & fueling poor policy. ryanbourne.substack.com/p/the-road-t...ryanbourne.substack.comThe Road to Price ControlsHow and why both presidential candidates declared a war on market prices during this election campaign 083
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 14/09/2023NEW SUBSTACK POST: Why Is Childcare So Expensive? ryanbourne.substack.com/p/why-is-chi... 020
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 10/08/2023NEW COLUMN: I implore economists and politicians to stop using the fact of high debt levels post-WW2 as evidence that high debts don't matter today.thetimes.co.ukGovernment debt is a historic problem, but this time the issue really is differentFitch’s decision to knock the United States off its top AAA credit rating perch has ruffled economists’ feathers, especially in the Biden administration. Janet 000
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 09/08/2023NEW SUBSTACK POST: There is an attempt underway by some American academic economists to rehabilitate rent control. Their case is based on bad theory and cherry-picked evidence. More here.ryanbourne.substack.comLeft-wing Economists Misrepresent Rent Control LiteratureA new letter advocating national rent control cherry-picks its evidence 042
Ryan Bourne @ryanbourne.bsky.social · 27/07/2023My Times column today explores the economic pitfalls of the UK pondering new tax breaks for employer health services.thetimes.co.ukTax breaks for private healthcare? That’s the American way, and it’s not a good oneWith 438,000 more people deemed long-term sick since early 2020, Jeremy Hunt’s aim to forge a healthier British workforce is commendable. Yet his purported solu 000