Category: Blog
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Corporate banking transparency let’s us take back control
To avoid any conflict with shareholders, corporate managers and employees are required to leave their values at the door and maximise profits. This fiduciary duty is an absolute legal priority, a singular and exclusive focus on their own self-interest that corporations only share with sociopaths. Joel Bakan’s The Corporation explains this really well, characterising corporations…
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What’s missing from this World View?
It is always possible to add more detail, so feel free to nominate something to remove which you think is less salient in society than what’s missing.
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How to save hundreds of billions of pounds
We should reverse neoliberal inequality and save hundreds of billions of pounds by using taxes to control inflation, leaving monetary policy unchanged, but as our last resort and not our only option. A ‘tax ventilator’ from zero to three percent on household incomes should easily quell future inflation, saving debtors hundreds of billions of pounds…
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Free markets work; free trade only benefits tyrants
Free markets liberated us from the overweening power of church and aristocracy and created a rights culture. Emile Durkheim established the constitutional, commercial and civil law that capitalism requires back in 1893. Free markets empower people with a choice of where to buy, work and live, and vendors compete with lower prices right down the…