Economics

In-depth articles on economics exploring key policies in healthcare economics, agriculture subsidies, trade tariffs, government subsidies, and monetary systems — with critical examination of their broader impacts on public health, individual liberty, free markets, economic freedom, and the urgent need for policy reform.

Brownstone Institute provides alternative perspectives on how economic interventions affect society, from farm subsidies distorting food systems and health outcomes to monetary policy enabling control, tariff effects on global trade and liberty, and pathways to restore free-market principles and personal freedoms.

All economics articles are translated into multiple languages to support global readers, open international dialogue, and promote evidence-based reform worldwide.

Trump’s Art of the Deal Collides with Modi’s ‘India First’ Policy

Trump’s Art of the Deal Collides with Modi’s ‘India First’ Policy

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For the purposes of containing China’s influence and aggressive behaviour, there is no more important partner for the US than India. That strategic partnership is under threat from an explosive combination of American arrogance and unilateralism and Indian hubris and prickliness.

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Oxford Academic Says it’s Time to Start Paying People to Take Vaccines

Oxford Academic Says It’s Time to Start Paying People to Take Vaccines

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It’s time to start paying people to take vaccines to boost take-up. That’s according to Dr. Raymond Duch, an Oxford academic writing in the Financial Times. This is the lesson he’s taken from the Covid pandemic, apparently.

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Innovative Health Financing Mechanisms for Advancing Pandemic Preparedness: ‘Huge Untapped Potential’ or False Advertising?

Innovative Health Financing Mechanisms for Advancing Pandemic Preparedness: ‘Huge Untapped Potential’ or False Advertising?

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Innovative financing looks to be yet more false advertising for global health financing reform, where its ‘huge untapped potential’ mainly lies with how to further promote vested interests at the expense of comprehensive global public health.

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