Thinking Out Aloud

This comment provoked the thought that modern welfare states are systems for replacing private saving with public debt. With large health c...

This is based on comments I made here . If the purpose of government is to "do good", then there is no limit to government, for th...

This is based on a comment I made here . There are a host of issues with inequality: of the significance of income versus consumption inequa...

Blogging in Cuba is not the safest of occupations. Here is a request, received by email, by and on behalf of such bloggers: Many people want...

Nigel Jones' splendid A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps Blazed a Trail for Hitler is an excellent rendering ...

This is based on some comments I made here on a proposal to give animals property rights in order to protect habitats. Presuming that the p...

I recently listened to talk by a former Chief Economist for the Reserve Bank of Australia. He was speaking to a lay audience and gave a nice...

Economist Deepak Lal usefully divides cultures—interwoven ways of doing things passed across generations by learning—into their material and...

This concludes my review of P. D. Jonson's (aka Henry Thornton ) Great Crises of Capitalism . The first part is here , the second part i...

This continues my review of P. D. Jonson (aka Henry Thornton ) has written Great Crises of Capitalism . The first part is in my previous po...

P. D. Jonson (aka Henry Thornton ) has written Great Crises of Capitalism , a history of economic crises in capitalism since the C17th and ...