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Recent Posts
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What if Inflation Isn’t What We Think It Is?
This article interrogates the established view of inflation as a neutral price phenomenon, exposing it instead as a mechanism of asymmetric value capture by dominant economic actors – part of a broader concept, ‘excumulation’…
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The Evolution of Economic Control: From Financial Stability to the Economics of Organised Scarcity
Friedman’s claim that inflation is purely a monetary phenomenon shaped global economic policy for decades, but it oversimplifies economic reality. Money, like any commodity, is governed by supply and demand, yet financial institutions and…
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From Neoliberal Nostalgia in Sovereigntist Clothing to a Revival of Ordo-Liberalism?
This response to “Building Economic Dynamism: The Choices We Face” (Feb 2025) examines how the economic vision presented by Lord Frost—while framed as a break from liberal orthodoxy—paradoxically recalls the very Ordoliberal tradition that…
Past Posts
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Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?
Same market, same industry but different C-suite, obviously. We believe that less is more and that the post’s title should be enough. More on this topic CNN: UK’s biggest supermarket adds 16,000 jobs to cope with online shopping boom Retail Gazette: M&S to scrap 7000 jobs Reason‘s blogs:
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The Economics of #MeToo & Reference Checks: Do Recruiters Care?
Abuse of power and backlisting are undoubtedly strengthened by dogmatic, arbitrary and unregulated practices of References / Background Checks leaving real risk prevention for businesses and candidates/employees often unaddressed. As a new landmark decision related to #MeToo has just been taken in the US, we are sharing here an article about “The Economics of #MeToo and How to…
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Resilience Association Next Webinar on COVID-19 Exit Strategy
On Wed 29th July, 6pm: Opening the door on what leadership, management and operations are currently thinking about on the COVID-19 “new normal” About this Event and Booking The Resilience Association is pleased to provide you with another COVID-19 Exit Strategy Free to attend Webinar, this time focusing on “What does the new normal look like?” reason are delighted…
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Corporate Insights and ‘Single Version of the Truth’ Principle
From assertive goodwill to consistent reality: Why Praxis matters. Clarifications about a highly underestimated strategic question. When it comes to Reporting, Analytics and Insights, there is little more important for organisations than the principle of a Single Version of the Truth (SVoT). This principle often expresses the data warehousing design ideal, at IT level, with…
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80 years ago: De Gaulle’s Appeal of 18 June 1940 still resonates
The Appeal to Resistance against Nazism and France’s Occupation and Collaboration, recorded on the 22nd on the BBC (UK), still defines what mean vision, courage, and the fight for what is true, good and just.
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Covid-19 Big Picture Insights
Try our Desktop or Tablet design-intended Dashboard – Now with the 9th of July data snapshot added Using official public data and Tableau technology, reason presents a visualisation focusing on the Covid-19 virus’s big picture understanding. The visualisation has now an additional data set dated 9th of July. Access the visualisation by clicking on the image above…
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Introducing New Funnel Visualisations
We are pleased to introduce an original funnel design visualisation, based on Tableau technology. We are pleased to introduce an original funnel design visualisation, based on Tableau technology. The funnel’s shape will change accordingly to displayed values and users’ filter selection. Various design options are possible. An online interactive version of the funnels is available here….
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