The Philosophical Muser

The Guardian will dolefully report that the bottom 20% of households receives less than 5% of UK income, but that those in top 5% receiv...

Economics enlightens us all on several very important considerations about human behaviour. It teaches us to see that pretty much everyth...

A fellow on BBC Parliament last night was moaning that the price of diesel going down is bad for the planet. That depends, of course. If ...

Do you think women should always be paid the same as men for doing the same job, or can you think of any conditions under which one or th...

Here we have another characteristically dodgy article from Duncan Weldon in The Guardian, who foolishly believes that the way to sort ou...

My favourite blog posts are the ones where I take a common viewpoint held by the majority of people and explain why it is a myth. Today i...

In 1998, inspired by watching a baseball game, the economist Don Boudreaux wrote a short essay entitled Much More Than Meets the Eye . It...

In case you’ve forgotten, I wrote an article back in December explaining why Brexit must involve leaving the customs union. More recently...

I see a lot of headline-grabbing warnings in the media about how activity x, y or z is a huge danger to a, b or c. They bandy figures aro...

In this paper, I will consider supposedly subjective things like taste and opinion and look to challenge long-standing views about their ...

In the air at the moment are grave concerns about EU citizens in the UK and UK citizens in the EU, and whether both groups will get to ...

There is nobody more confused in mainstream media at the moment than Paul Mason - a man so bad at economic social commentary that he doesn...

It's a great question which a friend and I were discussing over a group dinner Friday night. I can offer plenty of suggestions to whe...