The People's Economics

Ammonium chloride as an ingredient of an anti-rust paint? Levi knows
it is completely useless as I can state from first-hand experience because it...

The peak of the British novel? I can't remember much about it - but then I tend to remember what's wrong with a book.

Woolf has plenty of opinions on 19th Century Literature

Contains the short story The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas . Would you stay or would you walk away.

Edward IV married Elizabeth Woodville and their son became Edward V – that is until his uncle Richard declared him illegitimate, on the basis that a...

One recommendation in Moral Thinking, Fast and Slow is that, in an argument, rather than countering the points our opponents are making, we should...

In the past many families would keep a pig, feed it on scraps, and then have it slaughtered to provide meat for the winter. Pigs are intelligent...

Some have claimed that slavery wasn’t as profitable as it was made out to be – that it would be cheaper just to employ people. This claim looks like...

At Henry George’s Oxford talk a Mr Conybeare claimed that Land Taxes were immoral. George took this as a personal insult, and demanded an apology. I...

How well off were agricultural labourers in Britain in 1775? Adam Smith thought free trade had brought prosperity, whilst Thomas Malthus saw misery...

How can the fact that GDP divided by working population is over 4 times the median income be reconciled with roughly 2/3 of national income going to...

There are those who see Socrates as a martyr, willing to die for his principles. Is it plausible to view him as more like Winston Smith in the book...

Will this succeed in changing the way mathematics is done?

Many people use Bourgeois purely as an insult. Is it possible to change this viewpoint

We need new ideas in economics, but can we get away from just dressing up old ones?

All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I...

The laser isn't as much of a success for quantum theory as some would have us believe.

Orwell's voice is one that I respect. I feel that it is important to get beyond 1984 .

£30 for 10000+ pages is less than 0.3 pence per page which is pretty good value.

It is often thought that Einstein lost his way with quantum theory. But was he really a voice in the wilderness who was saying something important?

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

An important work in understanding the divisions in our society and what we can do to bridge them

Mentions system III thinking, but I think that it more of a repackaging of system 2 thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell claims that the 10000 hours of practice applies to many areas of expertise. He is persuasive, but it's important to note that in...

Builds upon the idea that we need 10000 hours to achieve excellence. But does this mean that we have to have years of training before we can presume...