Economics of Imperialism

Here are some points to consider when sorting through the news stories about Greece. The media coverage is naturally focused on day-to-da...

A pervasive economic euphemism is the 'value chain'. This neatly glides over what is meant by 'value' and simply notes, as f...

Modern humans originated some 200,000 years ago. Agricultural society began a little over 10,000 years ago, and brought the first forms o...

It is amusing to see the powerful fall down, but more interesting to see who pushed them over, especially when the ramifications highlight h...

I had not expected any good news from the UK general election. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Labour apparatchik and Sha...

This item is a response to comments made by 'Anonymous' on two of my blog articles earlier this month: Immigration and the Imper...

The Mediterranean is becoming the new Dead Sea. Dead, not because of a lack of fish, but because of an abundance of human corpses. Hundreds ...