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Researching the book Economics of Visual Art, I came across a drawing in the Tate Archives. It is a “concept sketch” for Tate Modern. It was drawn in 1991 — a full nine years before the building...
In 2020, I was struggling to negotiate my academic work (teaching remotely online and finishing the production process for a new book) while homeschooling three children and mourning the loss of a dear...
Our book, What Capitalism Needs, spells out what capitalism needs, drawing on the ideas of great but unduly neglected economists of the past including Friedrich List, Joseph Schumpeter, Maynard Keynes and Albert Hirschman—but with most attention being paid to Adam Smith and Karl Polanyi.
People shouting from soap boxes, newspaper vox pops on news programmes, social media all come to mind when we think of the public political sphere. Democracy, it is generally accepted, needs the public...
The past few years have witnessed some astounding advances in artificial intelligence, with high profile breakthroughs such as diagnostic software now in use and autonomously diagnosing disease, algorithms...
When Geoffrey Hill began his fourth lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry in 2011, the audience members clearly expected a mischievous performance. In his first lecture, Hill had promised a future evaluation...
The Chinese government is trying to internationalize the RMB (renminbi), and this gives rise to at least a few questions. What are the real reasons for this action? Will it succeed? What are the factors...
Has getting married these days become a secular matter rather than a religious one? The latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics would certainly suggest so. In 2018, barely a fifth...
Nowadays it is common to come across media reports about scientific studies reporting statistical associations between particular genes or other sites on DNA and particular conditions, including diseases...
Surviving Climate Chaos is being published into a new world of lethal fires, floods and record-breaking temperatures, as well as frantic international negotiations before CoP 26 in Glasgow. This is while...
One of these days my book The Epistemology of Reading and Interpretation will appear. I am, of course, pleased with this beautifully covered outcome of a couple of years hard work! The book grew out...
Nowadays it’s regularly remarked that people think all prehistoric animals are dinosaurs. The flying Pteranodon? Dinosaur. The aquatic Ichthyosaurus? Dinosaur. Mammuthus primigenius – or rather the...
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