The Philosophical Muser

The above image is a meme doing the rounds. Personally, the most obvious response I have is that for evolutionary reasons that served us...

Considering that in the shape of the shadow Labour cabinet they have only an economic laughing stock as opposition at the moment, it...

Some of you may be interested in my response to an IEA writer’s peculiar argument for why Prisons do not act as a deterrent to crime . S...

There was a claim in the UK's Independent newspaper paper recently that Cannabis legalisation in UK would raise £1bn a year in taxes ...

 If, like me, you're a bit of a numbers nerd, you'll have been excited by the recent news that a new largest ever prime number...

I was interested to stumble upon this page which speaks of a global map of homophobia. Unsurprisingly the two big findings were that sub...

I was just watching some catch-up TV, and the show I was most looking forward to was the Channel 4 documentary about the hitherto 'un...

I doubt I've ever made this known, but in a life that is so abundantly demanding of any interested person's mind, I am highly unl...

Economists are always being accused of trying to reduce everything to money and mathematics. Critics will make assertions such as: "...

I wonder what Gordon "Let's nationalise our oil fields" Brown and Ed "The nefarious multinational oil companies monopo...

David Cameron has launched a scathing attack on the universities of Oxford and Cambridge today for failing to recruit more BME (black ...

  I got a nice comment today on one of my blogs on the misjudged minimum wage law….. F**k you are a d**k – you wish to privilege rich...

Tyler Cowen has perhaps the best analogy I know to illustrate how it is that economists understand the world so much better than anyone el...

Politicians come up with all sorts of initiatives to meddle in the market in ways they think are helping - whether it's price controls...

It seems that in my city there is a popular music pub called The Owl Sanctuary, which has been bought by property developer Richard Pratt ...

  I was looking through some old writing of mine, as you do, and I found this little scribbling I wrote in 1998: T he recent hyste...