The Philosophical Muser

As I've explained before on this Blog, the notion of linking a CEO's pay to a company's market value is not a very reliable m...

An interesting turn up this week after the further developments in the big bang theory (not the sitcom), the Daily Mail's Ephraim Hard...

You may have heard of a tax called the Robin Hood Tax - it's been getting a lot of attention recently. The website I linked starts...

I hold the view that being generous is good, but equally that it is nigh-on impossible to be generous without also conferring a benefit t...

In Plato’s famous dialogue we are given the classic philosophical conundrum called Euthyphro’s dilemma: Are things good because God comma...

When people in poorer countries can't trade freely, they suffer. One of the biggest barriers to free trading for poorer people (like ma...

I'm pretty well read when it comes to the works of George Orwell. Here, though, is a quote from Orwell that I hadn't come across b...

A thought occurred to me today regarding an inconsistency in the judicial system - one that you may not have noticed. Prior to being call...

You may have noticed there has been a lot of indignation over the notion of bankers' bonuses - particularly since the financial crisi...

There are perhaps 3 main rewards for writers: 1) The personal enrichment that comes from forming your ideas and writing about them.  ...

My car insurance is due soon. I hadn't kept up with all the arcane ways that EU legislation affects UK business, but being curious a...

The European Court of Human Rights declares that it is a violation of human rights for criminals to be incarcerated for life with no hope ...

Parliament is now going to change the law on stealing food. It thinks stealing food is bad, but it thinks stealing some food is worse tha...

Hang on, I hear you protest, of course we predict things, don't we? We make predictions in everything from carefully studied specialise...

I heard on the news today that some of the flood victims in Somerset (and other places) are demanding compensation from the government f...

At Drexel University , designer Kelly Cobb has tried to prove a point in favour of self-sufficient local trading by making what's call...

When the mafia used to start up protection rackets they had to strike a good economic balance. Suppose they were going to operate in an a...