Following in the footsteps of Kropotkin
Daniel Finkelstein provides some interesting commentary on David Willetts’ latest efforts to put some new intellectual impetus behind British Conservatism:
For 30 years the most interesting ideas for Conservatives have come from economists. Now it is being proposed that sociobiology, game theory and social psychology power the Tory agenda. Alongside well-known thinkers such as Milton [...]
Government waste
Stephen Pollard notes this shocker from an economically illiterate “political researcher” at University College, London:
Overseas aid charities have dismissed an academic’s suggestion that donors should be able to bypass third sector groups and give money directly to the Department for International Development .
Meg Russell, a political researcher at UCL, made the suggestion in an article [...]