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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 to visualise supranational bodies the UK belongs to?
Illustration with the EULER diagram The UK is part of thousands of international treaties or bodies, most known being the Commonwealth, the UN, the EU, the EEA and the Council of Europe. If we limit our purpose to the continent and specific supranational bodies the UK and other continental countries belong to, the EULER diagram…
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What to expect this week from the Supreme Court?
What to expect this week from the Supreme Court (SP) on the Prorogation of Parliament? Having spent three days watching online debates on the Prorogation of Parliament case, I must say it’s been the most high-level case I could observe and study since the failed Project of Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe (2004-5). Issues the SP is…
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Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it
A few facts to help and think about. At reason, we know that looking at facts is the beginning of the understanding of a topic, and an issue if it is seen as such. The Global Carbon Atlas is a good place to start when looking at facts about CO2 emissions. The below map shows the 2017 world’s…
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