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  • Ghosts in the Boardroom 2025: Dispelling the Shapeshifting Forces That Haunt Corporate Performance

    Ghosts in the Boardroom 2025: Dispelling the Shapeshifting Forces That Haunt Corporate Performance

    This halloween, Reason Praxis revisits the ghosts haunting today’s boardrooms: the recurring habits, inefficiencies, and governance lapses that keep coming back each year, and how to exorcise them before Christmas.

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  • Manifestation of Truth Across Interpretive Approaches

    Manifestation of Truth Across Interpretive Approaches

    This essay explores how different interpretive frameworks influence our access to truth across disciplines. It argues that truth is not simply discovered but shaped – sometimes distorted – by the method of interpretation applied. Using examples from law, science, scripture, and ordinary language, it contrasts literalism with hermeneutics and maps eleven frameworks ranging from exegesis…

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  • What if Inflation Isn’t What We Think It Is?

    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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  • Are Facts Possible Without Context?

    Are Facts Possible Without Context?

    Can facts exist independently of context? While facts are often seen as objective truths, closer examination reveals that they rely on underlying systems of meaning. This article explores a logical progression of ideas, leading to the conclusion that no fact exists without context. It also clarifies that recognising context-dependence does not imply relativism and that…

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  • The Evolution of Economic Control: From Financial Stability to the Economics of Organised Scarcity

    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 central banks have …

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  • From Neoliberal Nostalgia in Sovereigntist Clothing to a Revival of Ordo-Liberalism?

    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 underpins the EU model he opposes. It argues that the proposed path is less a return to sovereignty than…

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  • Where Has the Brand’s Soul Gone?

    Where Has the Brand’s Soul Gone?

    At Reason Praxis, we pay close attention to the gravitational pull of market-wide shifts – especially when they echo across sectors, geographies, and platforms. The current wave of brand simplification is one such case. It’s reassuring, even affirming, to see others recognising the same pattern: a growing convergence in logo design that has transformed identity…

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