Economics
Chris Dillow: On resilience
The common error here is an inability to see that products and systems must be resilient to human error simply because such errors are widespread and an inevitable part of the human condition. Read Here
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Economics
Chris Dillow: The Full Employment Challenge
Many technocrats think the UK is at or around full employment. What they don’t say is that this requires some radical thinking about economic policy. Read Here
Economics
Chris Dillow – Why economists need history
Universities were once institutions of new ideas, a place where thoughts could run free. As we are seeing with university strikes in Britain and the US, they have become servile institutions for neo-liberal ideology and […]
Austerity
Chris Dillow – It’s not about the money
An excellently explained piece explaining why economics is about political priorities as well as human and physical resource limits. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: In praise of conventional thinking
When does innovation work and when not? I’m prompted to ask by Ed Smith’s wonderful new book, Making Decisions, which argues for the need for”anti-processes”, original thinking and spontaneity to resist “the slide into bureaucratic […]
Austerity
Chris Dillow – The austerity choice
Austerity: Coming soon to the EU nation nearest you. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and the End of […]
Economics
Chris Dillow – The cost-cutting error
This is such an important economic principle to understand. A must read. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and […]
Austerity
Chris Dillow: Origins of the Tory implosion
The implosion of the Tory party suggests I was wrong. Read Here
Economics
Chris Dillow: The full employment question
“Never mind the public finances. Look after the economy and the deficit will look after itself.” For years, critics of George Osborne such as me echoed Keynes’ old line. At last, the Tories are, by […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: Why do we want free markets?
Where there is monopoly, or the opportunity for egregious exploitation, or agency failure, then the case for free markets diminishes. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, […]