Why CEOs Get Paid A Lot – The Quality Of Management Really Matters
This isn't quite what this paper was asking but it is rather what has been answered. Why is it that managers and CEOs get...
How Can Anyone Actually Be This Stupid?
A certain American professor - of sociology, naturally - called Matthew Desmond has decided to pleasure us with the ignorance of his knowledge of...
China Should Slap Down Hong Kong Because Economic Liberty
The latest from British academia is that China should slap down on the freedoms of Hong Kong because of the economic liberty the place...
Nuts and Bolts
No, the headline isn’t about a bloke who’s had a few too many down at the pub head butting a drinker and then bolting...
Goldsmith’s Beef Ban And the Necessity Of A Carbon Tax
Goldmiths, University of London, has decided to ban beef from the campus. No more steaks - not that they ever featured on student menus...
You Cut, We Choose
Whenever cake was on the table and me and my sister were in the queue for some, to forestall the inevitable arguments about whose...
The Vile Cost Of Neoliberalism
From the Mirrlees Review we get this chart. Showing the true and vile cost of neoliberalism:
As the Senior Lecturer tells us:
If you want an...
To Prove That Andrew Simms Knows Nothing About Economics
Andrew Simms used to work at the New Economics Foundation - Not Economics Frankly - so therefore obviously he knows nothing about economics. But...
NEF’s Idiot Plans To Solve The Housing Problem
There's a reason why New Economics Foundation stands for Not Economics Frankly. That reason on display here with the plan for reforming the housing...
Michael Sheen’s Return To Work Shows We Measure Wealth Completely Wrongly
As we all know - because we're told interminably - wealth is grossly and unfairly distributed at present. And here's a story that nicely...