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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 friend. Lockdown was challenging but I recognised my position as one of real privilege – I still had a job, my kids […]
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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.
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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 sphere to flourish. But what is less well understood is why the public political space is essential to preventing tyranny, and why […]
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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 that can design new microchips better than teams of people, and machines that can write interesting articles. As AI continues to improve, it is going to take […]
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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 of contemporary British poetry, and in the subsequent oration he did not hold back, appraising creative writing as a neoliberal efflorescence of a […]
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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 working in its favor? What are the impediments? What are the implications for the rest of the world? The internationalization […]
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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 of weddings in England and Wales were classified as ‘religious’ rather than ‘civil’, the lowest on record. Just twenty-five years ago, by […]
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It is common to hear about about scientific studies reporting statistical associations between particular genes and diseases or characteristics such as intelligence or educational attainment. The take-home message is often that those DNA sites are ‘responsible’ for cancer, or high intelligence etc., even though what scientist have actually found is only an association between the two. This is what I have called the "associated gene" concept.
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