Ryan Bourne

Dynamic Pricing is Fair Play for the 2026 FIFA World Cup On FIFA vs. Mamdani

NEW SUBSTACK: In defence of FIFA's World Cup ticket pricing system.

Zohran Mamdani's “War on Prices” The NYC Mayoral candidate's pricing policies would bring a high efficiency cost

NEW POST: Zohran Mamdani's War on Prices.

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What Nigel Farage gets right about economic policy Reform’s commitment to fiscal discipline is open to question, but the leader’s home truths on family taxation and net zero deserve acknowledgment

NEW COLUMN: What Farage gets right on economic policy.

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No more excuses, US politicians deserve their ratings downgrade Real interest rates have surged over the past two years, but instead of tightening their belts American lawmakers plan to borrow more

NEW COLUMN: Members of Congress deserved their downgrade.

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Donald Trump’s drug price controls give Labour another headache The US president’s order creates a new problem for Sir Keir Starmer. Will the UK pay more, or will patients lose access to treatments?

NEW COLUMN: Trump's drug price controls could give Labour and the NHS another headache www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Is 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

NEW COLUMN: Is the new right embracing degrowth economics? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Is 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...

New 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...

The Road to Price Controls How and why both presidential candidates declared a war on market prices during this election campaign

The 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...

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Government debt is a historic problem, but this time the issue really is different Fitch’s decision to knock the United States off its top AAA credit rating perch has ruffled economists’ feathers, especially in the Biden administration. Janet

NEW 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.

Left-wing Economists Misrepresent Rent Control Literature A new letter advocating national rent control cherry-picks its evidence

NEW 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.

Tax breaks for private healthcare? That’s the American way, and it’s not a good one With 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

My Times column today explores the economic pitfalls of the UK pondering new tax breaks for employer health services.