Keynesian Liberal

An extract from Primo Levi's If This is a Man. (from pages 165/6  Abacus edition, 2103) The prisoners are marched onto the parade gr...

"Private affluence and public squalor"  is perhaps the most famous phrase culled from James K Galbraith's seminal book, The ...

A couple of years ago I was invited to a posh lunch held in a prison in Surrey.  I can't now remember its name but it ran a training sc...

I am neither an accountant nor a lawyer - just a jobbing teacher of economics - so these questions may appear naive, but I haven't as y...

In Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Mikado , Ko-Ko, the rather timid Lord High Executioner, explains the fact that he hasn't actual...

This week "crisis" measures have been announced to enable the National Health Service to cope with its  now annual near collapse....

Another  piece of "silly season" news (see previous post) which has occupied the media over the holiday period is that the Britis...