Beginning Of The End Of Business As We Know It?

Jon Husband kindly alerted me to Umair Haque’s blog post The Beginning Of The End Of Business As We Know It. Haque proposes that the economy is in a state of institutional collapse and says that we can possibly escape “this death-with-a-whimper” through behavioural innovation, creating [...]

The observation that novelty is as old as the hills is made in the film Les Enfants Du Paradis. I was reminded of it this morning when I was reading Arthur Herman’s The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots Invention of the Modern World. Herman claims that the Glasgow merchant community ranked education as highly as good [...]

Those of you living outside the UK may not be aware of the uproar in the country caused by our elected Members of Parliament abusing expense allowances, seemingly regarding them as an entitlement and a way to  supplement their salaries. The common defence, to a man and woman, is “I have done nothing wrong. It [...]