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Economics / capitalism, democracy, economic theory, Keynes, plutocracy /

Notes to Myself

July 20, 2016

First. With respect to my summer reading. I have always been fascinated by information. Its role in the economy; its nature; and its effect on our institutions. Equally I am usually horrified by the abuse information gets in economic theory. To me asymmetries of information are the reason economies exist. They are the cause of […]

Economics / capitalism, democracy, economic theory, Keynes, University of Chicago /

Partying Like It’s 1848

July 18, 2016

This is not a time to dwell on the inconsistencies and even contradictions of the recent uprising of populism in the western world. Treat it as a fact. It just is. For there can be no mistaking the trend: people, large numbers of people, in a large swathe of Europe and America really are unhappy […]

Commentary / Brexit, capitalism, democracy, plutocracy, Reagan /

Brexit 2

June 29, 2016

Like many people I am still trying to digest the lunacy of Brexit. I say lunacy because retreat from European integration is, in my opinion, a regression towards the pettiness of nationalism that we can ill afford at a time of ever increasing technologically driven proximity to one another. Having said that I am astonished […]

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