Tim Hartford on why the UK is braced for a grim Christmas: Late in 2019, the British people decided that Chaos Kong would make a good prime minister and elected Boris Johnson by a large margin. Johnson has now decided to make a virtue of his own recklessness. After initially claiming that the shortage of… Continue reading In the long run, we are all dead
Tag: Economics
Frenemies Forever
Novelist John Lanchester ponders whether economists and humanists can ever be friends? [Hanson and Simler’s…] emphasis on signalling and unconscious motives suggests that the most important part of our actions is the motives themselves, rather than the things we achieve, such as writing symphonies, curing diseases, building cathedrals, searching into the deepest mysteries of time… Continue reading Frenemies Forever