There have been several disparate but converging forces operating within the UK over the past few years – a creeping authoritarianism, increasing polarisation and politicisation, and the pandemic and all it’s associated problems. The issue for me is that too often the first two are dismissed as irrelevant due to the pandemic, when…
Category: Economics
Chatter #224 – Ted Reese: The Marxist Case Against More Covid Restrictions
Ted Reese is a Marxist and the author of: Socialism or Extinction, Humanising Production, and the upcoming book The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman. In this podcast Ted and I talked through the left wing or “Marxist” case against more covid restrictions, particularly the vaccine passports. We talked about why…
Chatter #221 [Live] – Dave Carr on Digital Real Estate and Buying Property In The Metaverse
NFTs, the Metaverse, and digital real estate are all concepts that fascinate me. I’ve had discussions with a few people about this topic and now I decided to get a true expert on the show! I’m lucky enough to be joined by Dave Carr of Parcel (formerly of Decentraland)! He’s here to explain…
Chatter #209 – Simon Youel On Positive Money, Inflation, and Quantitative Easing
Have you ever wondered how a government budget works? How borrowing works? Whether the magic money tree really exists? Positive Money are a group hoping to educate people on how a sovereign government has the ability to create and spend money. Simon Youel is Head of Policy & Advocacy at Positive Money, a…
Chatter #204 – Professor Daron Acemoglu – Why Nations Fail Part 2: Building A Better System
Why Nations Fail is one of the best books I have read all year. Authors Acemoglu and Robinson insist that “development differences across countries are exclusively due to differences in political and economic institutions, and reject other theories that attribute some of the differences to culture, weather, geography or lack of knowledge about…
Chatter #203 – Professor James Robinson – Why Nations Fail Part 1: Does Freedom Lead To Prosperity?
Why Nations Fail may be the best book I have read this year, so I was absolutely delighted when both of the authors agreed to speak to me on my podcast! This is the first of these interviews, with Professor James A. Robinson. The main idea that I took from the book was…
