The Long Read – The Mint Magazine https://www.themintmagazine.com Published by Promoting Economic Pluralism Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:49:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.themintmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-The-Mint-Coin-32x32.jpg The Long Read – The Mint Magazine https://www.themintmagazine.com 32 32 Tech trumps tariffs https://www.themintmagazine.com/tech-trumps-tariffs/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/tech-trumps-tariffs/#respond Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:32:24 +0000 https://www.themintmagazine.com/?p=130674

Richard Vague advises Donald Trump to stop charging around and do some research. The US has had a particularly woeful trade deficit since the 1980s, and this article will consider … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/tech-trumps-tariffs/feed/ 0 Taking sides https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-sides/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-sides/#respond Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:11:11 +0000 https://themint.kinsta.cloud/?p=25098

Nicholas Gruen questions the value of competition and proposes a new frontier for political and economic reform. Since Adam Smith, economists have marvelled at competition’s capacity to improve our world … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/taking-sides/feed/ 0 Industrial policy, then and now https://www.themintmagazine.com/industrial-policy-then-and-now/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/industrial-policy-then-and-now/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:01:22 +0000 https://mint.10yearsafterthecrash.com/?p=3532

Victoria Chick compares two texts on industrial strategy that are separated by 90 years and are worlds apart in their concern for the public good. Introduction After 40 years of … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/industrial-policy-then-and-now/feed/ 1 The space between us https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-space-between-us/ https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-space-between-us/#respond Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:01:21 +0000 https://mint.10yearsafterthecrash.com/?p=3511

There’s iron in them-there hills: a composite image of the Moon indicating surface composition with blue showing titanium-rich areas, orange – lower titanium, and red indicating iron and titanium poor. … ]]> https://www.themintmagazine.com/the-space-between-us/feed/ 0