Monday, 4 August 2025

Inheritance Tax Is Largely Irrelevant to the Problem of Economic Inequality

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Also available on my new Substack Source Lots of people think that a few people controlling a very large share of a society's economic p...
Tuesday, 8 July 2025

UPDATE: Now also on Substack

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Google seems to have lost interest in the Blogger app and it is showing its age.  I am trying out Substack, and if it works out will be migr...
Monday, 7 July 2025

'Indigenous Knowledge' Is Inferior To Science

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Update: Now also on substack Source The view that ‘indigenous knowledge’ counts as knowledge in a sense comparable to real (i.e. scientific)...
Sunday, 8 June 2025

Tiny Countries Should Not Exist

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There is no good reason for tiny countries to exist, and we should stop making more of them. The World Bank classifies 40 countries as '...
Sunday, 1 June 2025

Stop Occupying My University!

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Update: Now also on  substack A University Occupation in The Netherlands - via  de Volkskrant Universities in several countries in the Globa...
Saturday, 15 February 2025

Unconventional Ways To Contribute To Climate Care: World Peace, Ozempic, Economic Growth

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Update: Now also on  substack It is widely recognised that climate change is so hard to deal with because it is a super wicked problem . Eve...
Saturday, 8 February 2025

The Climate Change Policy Problem: Why Can’t The World Do The Right And Obvious Thing?

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Source Many of those who care deeply about the environment find the climate change policy problem baffling. This includes the climate scie...