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    The Republican Dilemma

    March 14, 2016

    If my mailbox is anything to go by Donald Trump is about to cause the Republican party a nervous breakdown. Get the couch ready. Scarcely a day goes by without someone on the political punditry writing at length about the intricacies of a brokered convention. I am not going to regale you with the arcane nature of […]

    Commentary, Economics / Allyn Young, economic theory, Joan Robinson, Lionel Robbins, New Institutional Economics, Ronald Coase /

    Am I An Economist?

    March 14, 2016

    Who knows? If measured by the standards of the current elite of the subject, then clearly not. I am apostate. I am an outsider. Let me explain: I had the good fortune to attend The London School of Economics – I only mention this because it is important later in the story. It was too long […]

    Economics, Politics / capitalism, democracy, Karl Polanyi, plutocracy /

    Why Trump?

    March 10, 2016

    I have become so enmeshed in political activity here that I rarely have time to reflect on the strangeness of it all. Why Trump? Why now? But I was prompted to think a little harder about it when I re-read the following in Karl Polanyi’s “The Great Transformation”: “Market society was born in England – yet it […]

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