The Philosophical Muser

The hideous Trump vs. Clinton contest has probably made more people feel like not voting than in any time in recent American history. The...

I've written before about how this hyper-sensitive 'generation snowflake' society that is being created is turning our young...

The problem with the narrative about all the unpaid tax and all the ways the government is not getting the funds it needs to pay for thes...

Ha-Joon Chang regularly flaunts his economic misunderstandings, and this picture above that has been doing the rounds recently is no exce...

An argument I see from time to time from libertarians is that "If it wasn't compulsory, car insurance would be much cheaper, and...

There was an age old argument from philosophers about the nature of logic. Some philosophers said logic is derived from experience, where...

Hmm, this is a strange one! It's not uncommon to see an article in the Telegraph that's along the right lines; and it's not u...

Have a look at this picture above, and see if you can guess what type of car this is. Believe it or not it's actually an Aston Martin...

Encouraged by their leader today, Corbynites are peddling the narrative that now Mr C has won again, and with an even bigger majority th...

In changing the rules to allow paying members to vote for the party leader, Ed Miliband couldn't have predicted what a 5 season, 25 d...

If you're Facebook friends with people who share memes that are superficially seductive but logically and evidentially dubious, the ch...

The following paper, published here with the Institute of Economic Affairs, and entitled How Governments Harm Trade (for the full vers...

From the days when I used to read it every week (long before the days of the online option) The Economist has always come across as wishi...

A reader asked whether in economics we should always strive for Pareto improvements. For those unfamiliar with the term, a Pareto improve...

Unemployment figures are often bandied around by Cassandra-types who portend doom on the state of society. But there are at least two con...