Det finanspolitiska ramverket — en skuggöversyn Sverige står inför en stor underhålls- och investeringsskuld som inte går att möta med nuvarande budgetregler. Arena Idé har i två tidigare delrapporter redovisat de offentliga investeringsbehoven, samt utvärderat de samhällsekonomiska effekterna av dagens finanspolitiska ramverk, med anledning av den parlamentariska översyn som just nu pågår. Nu presenteras den tredje och sista delrapporten där ett nytt...

Evidensmonstret i svensk skola Det går ett monster fram över det svenska utbildningssystemet — utvärderings- och evidensbaseringsmonstret. Med ökad betoning av resultatstyrning följer en strid ström av krav på att redovisa kvalitet och resultat. För att mätta uppdragsgivarnas hunger efter utvärderingsinformation tvingas skolan avsätta mer och mer resurser och tid för denna verksamhet. I stället för att lita på lärares professionella kompetens kräver den nya...

A year or two back, I had a conversation with the IEA about using their renewables data to present at Angry Bear. They asked that I keep true to the presentation. They also ask that I not use their oil reports as that is sold to customers of that report. It must be more detailed than what I could see. The topic here is Global Renewables. As you read, you will find China is leading the world in Renewables. I do not know how technical China is on...

I understand one has to like to read about what the upper courts are doing, how they decide, and why they make decide as they do. It is obvious why Roberts and the other five decide the way they do. I will let you figure out what the basis is for their decisions. Roberts lates has reaped a public whirlwind of well-deserved criticism. Supreme Court analysis: John Roberts knows he lost the public. – by Dahlia Lithwick SLATE You would be...

The tax debates currently underway in France and the discussions which took place at the 2024 G20 summit demonstrate that the issue of tax justice and the taxation of billionaires is not about to disappear from the public debate. There’s a simple reason for this: the sums amassed by the world’s wealthiest individuals over the last few decades are quite simply gigantic. Those who consider this a secondary or symbolic issue should take a look at the numbers. In France, the combined wealth...

– by Bill McBride Calculated Risk NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to September 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not available). This is the second look at several early reporting local markets in September. I’m tracking over 40 local housing markets in the US. Some of the 40 markets are states, and some are metropolitan areas. I’ll update these tables throughout the...

For Indigenous Persons Day: a review of “A Brave and Cunning Prince” by James Horn  – by New Deal democrat Recently I read the above entitled book, and found it fascinating. Below are excerpts from an online book review, to which I have added further detail in brackets. I highly recommend it: “In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child [whose name they wrote as ‘Paquiquineo’] and took him...

Israel’s retaliation plan involves toppling the Iranian regime.

The 2024 economic sciences laureates The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson’s work, particularly in Why Nations Fail (2012), is widely recognized within new institutional economics for its argument that inclusive political and economic institutions are...