There Are Different Ways Of Measuring Economic Progress – But Which Different Ways Should...
This discussion is at least along the right lines. There are different ways we can measure economic progress. The important question being, well, which...
Elinor Ostrom, Societal Organisation And The God Threshold
Elinor Ostrom gained the Nobel Prize in large part for explaining that there's a method of societal organisation that isn't markets and property rights...
Increasing The Minimum Wage Increases Crime, Obviously Enough
It's a reasonable contention that if the young make more in wages then they'll nick less stuff in order to impress their paramours. They'll...
Automation And Trade Leading To A Polarised Job Market
Given the vast benefits to all of both automation and trade I don't tend to worry very much about the relative changes in position...
The Professor Doesn’t Understand The Paper
It's possible to wonder a bit whether the expansion of the universities was a good idea. Here we have the Senior Lecturer in political...
The Farmers’ Market Problem – Not Enough Demand For Overpriced Vegetables
Isn't this the most lovely surprise - supply and demand applies even to Farmers' Markets. Those little diagrams at the beginning of absolutely every...
The Financial Crisis That Swept Hitler To Power
It's necessary to note that a financial crisis did indeed aid Hitler in gaining power. But it wasn't the financial crisis most of us...
Socialism Makes You Cheat, Capitalism Honest
The background to this finding, that living under socialism makes you more likely to cheat, under capitalism to be honest, should be obvious. Under...
It Would Appear That George Monbiot Doesn’t Understand Karl Marx
George Monbiot tells us all today that capitalism is destroying the Earth and that's just terrible. The problem with this being that it's not...
We’ll Miss The Rich When They’re Gone – Or Their Tax Payments At Least
One of the things that the usual progressive whines about inequality miss is that the more unequal the incomes in our society the more...