Thinking Out Aloud

This is the second part of my review of Timothy Earle’s How Chiefs Come to Power: the Political Economy in Prehistory . The first part is he...

Timothy Earle’s How Chiefs Come to Power: the Political Economy in Prehistory is a study sufficiently well-grounded in archaeological and a...

This is based on a comment I made here . The Arab world remains caught between mosque and military as their only sources of organised politi...

By its ability to strip rights and moral protections from people. Whether it is women, other religions or denominations, intellectual or rel...

This question struck me after reading a group email from an Australian writer that cited various statements and recent events to attack corn...

This is based on a comment I made here . The interest rate is NOT the price of money. The price of money is what you can get for it (in term...

It is an odd thing, misogyny that celebrates heterosexuality. Particularly if it privileges heterosexuality. (By ‘privileging’ I mean maki...

On the matter of monotheism and homosexuality: it is slightly more complex than monotheism is simply against homosexuality (although that is...

I have updated my recent post on Macro Supply and Demand so as to assume less background knowledge by the reader.

The means we choose define us more than do the ends we seek. For the means we choose are how we directly affect other people and the world a...

This is a development of a comment I made here . It is my attempt to summarise, using my language rather than his, what Scott Sumner has to...

This is based on a comment I made here . Someone from a libertarian-conservative think tank publishes an opinion piece suggesting that same...

This is based on a comment I made here . There are folk out there who think the loss of value, since the Fed was founded, by rectangular bi...

This is expanded from a comment I made here . Economists have, quite unintentionally, come up with a defining characteristic of being alive....