Please let laissez-faire go
Fantasy knowledge-economies lead to ruin and inequality in the UK. But a discussion of the philosophy that led to this has been absent from the election The prevailing neo-liberal ideology to which...
View ArticleJeremy Fox
Author: Jeremy Fox First name(s): Jeremy Surname: Fox City: London Country: UK Jeremy Fox is a writer, businessman, and consultant. One-Line Biography: Jeremy Fox is a writer, businessman, and...
View ArticleJeremy Fox
Author: Jeremy Fox First name(s): Jeremy Surname: Fox City: London Jeremy Fox is a businessman, consultant and academic. He taught at the Centre for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE) in...
View ArticleFootball, Failure and Laissez-faire
With its dominance by overseas players, managers and finance, the Premier League is a symbol of the UK's failed economic model. Fabio Capello remarked some time ago that less than 40 per cent of the...
View ArticleLeading in underdevelopment
How has Britain succeeded – if that is the word – in falling so relatively low in the UN's Human Development measurements? Every year since 1990, the United Nations has published its Human Development...
View ArticleMexnarcos
In the end, this is a war about fundamental human justice in almost every conceivable sense of that phrase. The solution, if there is one, will require an international response Mexico CityAn...
View ArticleFarewell to Free Market Fundamentalism by Jeremy Fox
The end of neo-liberal capitalism has been the most critical development in the history of modern democracy. When the struggle began, during the last century, the odds against defeating an economic...
View ArticleDon't tax us, it harms the economy: a convenient argument from Britain's richest
Britain's 50 per cent tax rate for high earners isn't slowing growth. But many of the rich don't want to pay, so they're fighting dirty for its abolition Last week, a letter appeared in the...
View ArticleTaxing the rich: 50p is too little
Michael Bullen argued against Jeremy Fox's charge of "blackmail by the wealthy" with respect to the campaign in Britain to abolish the 50p tax rate. Here, the author returns to the attack, proposing...
View ArticlePay at the top: to each according to results? to social contribution? ... or...
Are high executive and banking pay related to results? Or to social value added? Or does executive compensation simply ratchet upwards, irrespective of either? Jeremy Fox reviews work from the High...
View ArticleA little rebellion, now and then...
Martin Wolf recognizes many of the ills of our existing economic arrangements, but his solutions involve little more than tinkering. Martin Wolf’s “Seven Ways to fix the system’s flaws” reads more...
View ArticleHow Argentina came about
An essay on the history of Argentina and its battles for independence. In the context of the debate over the future of the Falklands/Malvinas, which Argentina has long claimed, it sets out the story of...
View ArticleCardboard Britain: the UK at Mexico's Festival of Cultural Friendship
Mexico City's historic avenue Paseo de la Reforma is hosting its annual Festival of Cultural Friendship. Far from a proud display, the UK's booth shows a national identity in very bad health.Between...
View ArticleDumbing down
Culture today is dependent on shock, excess, instant effect, and the avoidance of intellectual effort. If the plastic arts are notably trivial and befuddling, literature, music, and cinema lag not far...
View ArticleThatcher's funeral - the crowd, the media and reality
Despite shameless media fawning the streets were in fact eerily quiet; the biggest crowd out was the police. But signs of her legacy are still pervasive.On Thatcher funeral day, I had to catch a...
View ArticleGlobal dissent and the UK
In a world where states have been able to disguise their intentions, Jeremy Fox examines the implications of technological advancements on the necessary transparency that governments need to...
View ArticleEdmund Burke: an unspoken villainy
Burke has been much discussed recently, on both left and right, yet beneath the verbosity and pomp is a host of highly unsavoury views. An "out and out vulgar bourgeois" is, if anything, too kind.Not...
View ArticleIdealism and politics: the case of Uruguay
What makes Uruguay different, is that apparently utopian dreams are being implemented - not in half-measures but fully, openly and with the participation of the people. The President of Uruguay, José...
View ArticleHuman compassion in a foreign lingo
Mexico officially recognises 68 native languages, although some of these are spoken by fewer than 100 people and seem destined to disappear along with the culture and customs to which they gave...
View ArticleIn the days when I used to kill people...
You hear a lot of bad things about the NHS, much of which from the Tories, the gutter press and those with a vested interest in the privatisation of health. I was braced for the worse, but what I got...
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