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What Does LSE Mean?

I just received an email from the London School of Economics asking me to donate, as a loyal alumni, so that they can devote funds to “innovation”. The university of the future seems to be the objective of this innovation. What on earth is this? What about higher education needs innovating? Why the imperative? I understand […]

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Equality

All the justified fuss over inequality in recent months begs a rather significant question doesn’t it? If we are all so vexed over inequality we must have some yardstick or some more ideal state we could call equality. What is it? The problem I have is that equality almost immediately disappears into a fog. There […]

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Think Like An Economist?

Perhaps we are all asking too much. The burden is just too heavy a load. One point of entry too limited. A single, albeit determined, band of thinkers too narrow, too isolated, or too specialized to give us all that we want. I am talking about economics of course. We, that is society at large, […]

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