Month: March 2018

  • New College Spring 2018

    A bed of crocus Crocus up close Lawn. Daffodils New College.

  • Kant, Pettinger and Kierkegaard

    I was amused to see in Oxford Blackwells my new economics book in between the great philosophers Immanual Kant and Søren Kierkegaard. I’ve always fancied myself as something of a philosopher. But when I studied PPE at Oxford University, I was hopeless at philosophy. I couldn’t read a page of Kant for love nor money. One […]

  • Garden in the snow – spring 2018

    We have had quite a bit of snow this spring. The garden looks quite nice.

  • The clever economist gets caught out

    With my new book – What would Keynes do? – The brief was to write essays on how famous economists would respond to everyday questions. So for example, with the question – Is it OK to be selfish? I examined how the likes of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Arthur Pigou and Alfred Marshall might answer this […]

  • What would Keynes do?

    I have a new economics book published this week. – What Would Keynes do? It was good fun to write. In addition to my existing knowledge, I had to do quite a bit of research into the views of different economists. I learnt a lot about the fringes of economics in writing the book. It […]