I have no idea if the UK should be being conciliatory or defiant in tone, if we should impose retaliatory tariffs or not, or what if any concessions we should bring to the negotiating table. I do kno… (View Post)

If you wanted to be the first sheep you should have sold last week... (View Post)

Before leaving to go on holiday I got partway through Brad DeLong's book that's an economic history of the 20th century. One of his central themes is the interplay between the two ideas "capital… (View Post)

Did globalisation have "architects and instigators"? It seems to me more a nearly inevitable consequence of improving technologies in communication, shipping, and so on -- which makes it po… (View Post)

I think the other point to note here is that while systems both with and without term limits can be fine and functioning democracies, it's not unreasonable to be dubious when somebody comes along in … (View Post)