Earlier this month, Peter Johnson gave an account of Karl-Heinz Brodbeck's critique of the famous utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Benhtam's defence of usury, the charging of high rates of interest on money. Below, Tony Curzon Price and then Thomas Ash respond.
There's been a riveting storm all week-end in the US eco/env blogosphere about Dubner and Levitt's Superfreakonomics, especailly a chapter, now available and scanned by
How do you get a consensus? Bring together 250 pros of disagreement into a single place to talk about the marginilisation of dissent. CarnegieUK (with oD as media sponsor) organised
Chris Giles and Simon Briscoe in the FT have a beautifully produced flash-data feature describing the state of the UK economy. Their basic message would not have sounded out of
The Association of Train Operating Companies tells us that there is a case for re-opening 40 stations and 14 lines that were closed after the Beeching report of 1967. A
Jane O'Grady's very interesting piece on the mind/body problem has stirred quite a controversy. AlDaily picked it up, which always brings a good readership. This
When Michale Buerk went onto the Today program today to announce this evening's Moral Maze about the crisis of trust and authority, he signed off with a little
Tom Loosemore at the 4IP/Polis, #recasting event last night talked about the deep rules of the internet (those summarised beautifully by Zittrain - distributed, minimalist, messy, collaborative, adaptable ...) and
John Humphrys on Radio4's Today program interviewed Patrizio Nissirio (from Italian news agency Ansa) and Sebastian Berger (from German newspaper Rheinischer Merkur) to ask if the MPs'
