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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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How Resilient is Your Organisation to a Business Disaster?
Post written with Steve Yates, Chairman of the Resilience Association. Ensuring business continuity and resilience should be the priority, if not already the norm. 2019 was sadly a catastrophic year for certain industry sectors, with too many organizations going “bust”, in some cases a short time after their financial accounts had been cleared by top…
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Merry Christmas!
Remember that Jesus Christ is the Reason for the Season! A Merry Christmas at this wonderful time of the year to all our past, current and prospective clients, colleagues, business partners and professional relationships!
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Resources mismanagement: an integral part of corporate strategy?
Illustration with the deconstruction of two retailers’ food waste stances. When it comes to business strategy and its operationalisation, one needs to be aware that what doesn’t make sense at all in the eyes of shareholders, society or the population/customers can be intentionally and knowingly implemented by the business’s executives/owners. And this post shows that…
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How your Business’s ownership rights can bring you more fruits?
An introductory reflection on the three attributes of Property: Usus, Fructus and Abusus. As a qualification of the relationship between a person and a thing, ownership is, by nature, absolute. From a Roman long tradition feeding the emergence of civil law, ownership gives you what is called the Usus, Fructus and Abusus on your property/business. Usus denotes the right of…
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How to evaluate a business outcome’s performance?
Illustration with mathematics teaching policies in the US and Japan. When analysing data or information, whether quantitative or qualitative and even policies, history matters. Indeed, history shows us the evolution and direction taken by events, which we can then appreciate against given quality assessment criteria. To those who believe that “good” and “bad” criteria don’t…
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Is leaving the EU leaving the EEA?
This article is a continuation of the last “How to visualise supranational bodies the UK belongs to?”, as it answers now the question raised at the end of it: “Is leaving the EU leaving the EEA?”. Our analysis is that by leaving the EU, in a no-deal scenario, the UK would get back to existing…
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