Switzerland Archives

The Best Countries

Seeing the U.S. News 2022 ranking of the world’s best countries, we can combine skepticism with the insight conveyed by people’s perceptions.

Innovation

Six Ways to Look at Innovation

Identifying global innovation leaders, we can look at 132 economies, at income groups, at regions, and even creative destruction.

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What If Cash Handouts Have No Strings Attached?

In a new March 2021 report, we found out the results for the first year of Stockton’s UBI experiment. Recently too, the impact of Rwanda’s cash distribution was in the news. Last year we looked at Rwanda and Stockton. Today,…

Taxes and Spending

Where a Universal Basic Income Was Successful

An idea that has been around for hundreds of years, the universal basic income has only recently become an experiment in Stockton, California.

Economic History

What Switzerland is Best At

When the Universal Postal Union used four Rs to rank postal services in 172 countries, the United States was in ninth place.

Weekly Economic News Roundup and cash payments

What's Trending

The Countries That Love Cash

High for the Swiss and low in Portugal, the average amount of money that we keep in our wallets for cash payments varies from country to country.

What's Trending

Should Everyone Get a Basic Income?

For different reasons, a guaranteed basic income appeals to liberals and conservatives but few people appear ready to vote for it.

More people vote when they believe it is a social norm.

Economic Ideas

The Difference That a Sticker Makes

Because “I Voted” stickers indicate voting is a social norm, like paying taxes or saving electricity, people are more likely to act like their neighbors.