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December 3, 2021
I have just come from a country where the commercial machinery of Christmas seems to be already operating at full capacity, in a remote kind of […]
November 27, 2021
We get more and more billionaires. We also get more and more homeless people, and longer queues at foodbanks. Why? How human are we, if we […]
November 13, 2021
‘Those resisting responsibility will hear blame’ writes one of the respondents to my last post. They may, but whether they hear it or not, blame does […]
November 13, 2021
At the end of yesterday’s edition of Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’, Emma Barnett has her guests, John Humphries and Jon Snow, cornered like rats. There is […]
November 13, 2021
The free market? There is no such thing. Neoliberal economists rule the world. Whenever they smell out a corner not subjected to their government, they set […]
November 1, 2021
What do we value, and how do we measure it? This post is part of my series on how economic theories have moved further and further […]
October 28, 2021
I had one of those moments, yesterday, when life could have taken a radical turn for the worse, or even ended altogether. In fact, it was […]
October 16, 2021
Economics has been called ‘the dismal science’? Is it? Humanity has now reached the stage where we need international conferences on how to stop trashing the […]
October 9, 2021
If English Anglican white Evangelicals thought the analysis of Robert P. Jones represented a range of subjects on which they’d rather not comment (i.e., “… Let’s […]