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Quiet Does Not Mean Well

As we drift slowly deeper into summer it is worth reminding ourselves that quiet is not necessarily a good thing. There has been nothing here in the US to compete with the extraordinary display of policy ineptitude throughout Europe. So our news has lurked somewhat offstage in the shadows of anonymity. So it ought. The […]

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History, Aaah History

I never studied much economics until I was long out of school. I did so then to get to grips with its seeming irrelevance. I had become involved in questions of economics of the practical kind and found little – or none – of value in whatever textbooks I picked up to educate myself. I […]

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A Reply: Economics and Ethics

A correspondent of mine suggests we need to define both economics and ethics better if we are to resolve my ongoing angst with the state of the two combined. This is true. Ethics is, I think, well defined. The literature is full of notions of ethics and its evolution. Behavior that was once ethical is […]

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