The People's Economics

It will take time to get to the new 'growth engine' suggested in 'The Economic Growth Engine', but this book shows that we can bridge the gap by...

This book shows how GDP growth correlates with energy use. and arguesthat renewables aren't replacing fossil fuels at the rate that would be...

I felt that Lomborg's books deserved a book length reply, where the author could develop the arguments fully. Unfortunately I felt that Friel's book...

Bjorn Lomborg's claim that environmental worries are overly alarmist.

There was a claim that growing pressure on resources would push the price of raw materials sky-high. In this book we hear how Julian Simon, bet Paul...

This book argued that without drastic change we'd all be starving by the year 2000. But we're still here, and in fact many people have escaped hunger.

The first edition started with the prediction:
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve...

Polanyi read much of the work of earlier economists, and so his book provides many useful insights into economic history. I can't help feeling though...

William Godwin's very wordy tome, in which he argued, in a very repetitive way, that we needed to get rid of the hierarchical nature of society,

Price looked forward to an age of plenty, but this seemed to be a more religious view of the coming of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Malthus's famous prediction of a never ending struggle for existence. He got it wrong - but could he have known this at the time?

Doorothy L. Sayers's play about Christ caused something of a stir.

For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true.

Seemed to me to be more about the philosophy of mind than a discussion of miracles.

Newland Archer has plans to introduce his new wife, who has led a sheltered life, to wider interests. But is it Newland who is the innocent one?

A collection of C.S. Lewis's essays, making many interesting points.

This is where the religious motivation for the Narnia stories takes over from the plot. I feel there are serious inconsistencies with the earlier...

Queen Susan considers marrying the Calormene Prince Rabadash corresponding to the proposed marriage between Joan, the sister of Richard I, and...

The Lyons version does seem to have all 1001 nights in 3 volumes - I'd only been able to find a selection of tales up to now.

The scientists have become devil-worshippers, being in thrall to a disembodied head. It's quite obvious where this head comes from: 12th Century...

A scientist goes mad and the protagonist realizes he must kill him. A mirror to The War of the Worlds?

The first book of Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy. He makes the valid point that if scientists become too arrogant then they may well miss what is really...

The protagonist realized that he must silence a curate who is behaving is such a crazy way as to attract the attention of the Martians — so he kills...

Bishop Samuel Wilberforce's review of Darwin's classic work is well worth a look at

One of those grand schemes showing the progress of mankind from the earliest days and predicting great things in the coming centuries (He was largely...