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MoneyMirage

·Feb 20, 2022

31. ‘Feelings’: A Litmus Test for System Health

(A full list of the contents of this blog series is available here.) In my last blog I said that human beings are the measuring device for real weal creation and that this happens via their feelings. The acid test of the things we produce — of economic activity —…

Human Nature

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Human Nature

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MoneyMirage

·Nov 30, 2021

30. What’s wrong with ‘subjective’?

(A full list of the contents of this blog series is available here.) For decades — centuries in fact — science got people wrong. Blame Galileo if you like. For the purposes of his work, Galileo carefully divided the world into two: ‘primary qualities — shape and size, number, position…

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Oct 11, 2021

The right sort of competition

Last week we completed our submission to the UK Government’s consultation on its proposed new Digital Markets Unit. It was an interesting exercise. What is competition policy for? Competition policy is the area where the belief system called free market economics gets its purest expression. Under this belief system, there is an invisible, mystical, magical…

Citizen Empowerment

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Citizen Empowerment

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MoneyMirage

·Mar 15, 2021

The Money Mirage — Contents

This is an annotated contents list to a blog explaining the challenge of real wealth creation — how to sustainably improve and enrich human beings’ lives. Part 1 — Money Focuses on the role of money in our society. The Money Mirage shows how the vast majority live in a universe dominated by the…

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MoneyMirage

·Nov 18, 2020

29. What makes humans tick?

Is there such a thing as ‘human nature’? You might think this question is best left avoided, given the bizarre claims that are often made about human nature, and the sometimes horrendous policies that have sometimes been advanced under its banner. But given we humans are the product of a…

Money Mirage

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Money Mirage

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MoneyMirage

·Nov 8, 2020

28. Why do humans make things?

The Lion Man is an exquisite 31 cm mammoth ivory carving, depicting the head of a (now extinct) cave lion on the body of a man. He has a slender, cat-like body with the hips and thighs of a lion. His head gazes alertly and directly. …

Wealth Creation

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Wealth Creation

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MoneyMirage

·Sep 11, 2020

27. Searching for ‘Better’: Engine of Wealth Creation

When printing was first invented in the 1450s, its impact on society was surprisingly small. Because printing text was so complex and difficult (see my previous blog), printed material was nearly as expensive as hand-written manuscripts. It wasn’t until a hundred years later, when the printed word had been made…

Wealth Creation

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Wealth Creation

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·Aug 31, 2020

26. Why Economies are like Rainforests

In my last blog I talked about ‘recipes’ (applied modules of knowhow) and ‘webs of givens’ as engines of wealth creation. I gave the example of the classic cookery recipe which rests on taken-for-granted ‘givens’ such as access to an oven, an energy source, cooking utensils, ingredients and the recipe…

Money Mirage

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Money Mirage

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MoneyMirage

·Aug 18, 2020

25. The Cinderella of wealth creation

Before I was rudely interrupted by the Covid pandemic I was exploring three unsung heroes of wealth creation. They are: waste reduction Wherever there is waste a free economic lunch beckons, and believe you me, there are enormous amounts of waste everywhere. organisation To get things done, you need to…

Infrastructure

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Infrastructure

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·May 19, 2020

24. Is changing how we spend money the answer to our problems?

A reader comments on a previous blog on money as an instrument of power saying it “supports my view — that money is vital and that to have it stolen, plundered, misused, squandered is the problem”. This goes to the heart of it. So let’s dig deeper. At one level…

Money

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Money

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