Mark's Blog

Trust, competence and the West’s political malaise

Why millennials hate all employers

Fragments: The boomers are out of ideas

Fragments: Centrists who don't understand centrism

Labor is becoming bourgeois

Fragments - the grind

Fragments - Life after Nihilism

on the appropriate use of the philosophical armchair

Swan’s speech meaningfully right but technically wrong

Lessons from American growth and inequality

Musings on Corbyn and Centrism

Weaponisng 'humanity' in social justice discourses

The atheoretical invalidity of life satisfaction scales

Why Iceland’s wage gap policy is dumb

How identity politics gets inclusiveness backwards

Why rational choice is useful, as explained in introduction to economics

I was wrong: the democrats should have preselected Bernie

How to make facts: a primer on research methods

Why infant-industry protection doesn't work in a world of value-chains

Some thoughts on why the public thinks economists lean right

Why predictive polling is cooked