There is much discussion in the media today about Rachel Reeves and tax rises. Rumour has it that Reeves has decided that cuts to public
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I was intrigued by the answers to the polls posted with yesterday’s video on whether the UK can survive. As is our usual practice, we
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What if we designed society before we knew who we’d be in it? Philosopher John Rawls asked that question in A Theory of Justice, and
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A reader on this blog recently asked a question that goes to the heart of how our economy now works. It was simple: who are
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The Financial Times has reported this morning that senior figures in the City are now complaining that the minimum wage is rising so close to
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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Is the breakup of Britain inevitable? Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are turning away from Westminster while England clings to a failing system of centralised
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I wrote about supply and demand curves here yesterday. I said that the ideas implicit within them are total nonsense, as the claims in the
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I have added this entry to this blog’s glossary, it being a myth within neoclassical economics.  Supply and Demand Curves The image of two intersecting
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