Stealing the silver: How we take from the dispossessed, the poor and our own children There are numerous cases where well-meaning people find themselves defending...
Liquidity: Finance in motion or evaporation? House prices stuck? Not enough liquidity. Inflation rising? Too much...
Burma and North Korea - Avoid the Law unless Convenient Conflicts in both these countries show the real limits of...
Why Doesn't Capital Flow From High To Low? Capital should flow from countries with low marginal rates of...
Divine Law, Human Prophet: Moses in Hebrew and Greek The Hebrew lawgiver Moses was compared to ancient Greek lawgivers...
Carbon Offsetting: Does It Really Work? Offsets, politely called carbon credit markets, are essential to many...
Regulating the above average: Luck or skill? Considered thinkers from Mandelbrot ('fractals') or Keillor ('Lake Wobegon Days')...
Unwritten Laws? Legacies from Antigone and Lycurgus Sophocles’ Antigone refers to “unwritten laws”, as does Thucydides’ Pericles...
Why Does Britain Have a Water and Sewage Crisis? The discharge of raw sewage into rivers, as well as...