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Stian Westlake

The Tyranny of Malcolms

A malcolm is a folksy anecdote used to begin a chapter in a nonfiction book. Unfortunately, they’ve gotten out of hand.

6 min readJun 1, 2023

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Inequality and intangible capital

These thoughts on the relationship between inequality and intangible capital were written in response to James Plunkett’s Unequality: when…

7 min readJan 30, 2023

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Put a number on it, conservatives

Where are the right-wing proposals for GDP alternatives?

4 min readFeb 12, 2021

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Put a number on it, conservatives

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Bionic duckweed: using the future to fight the present

When visions of the future are used, in bad or dubious faith, to undermine action and investment today, that’s bionic duckweed

4 min readSep 24, 2020

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DARPA vs the Wheely Suitcase

Or, The Quantity vs Quality Theories of Innovation

6 min readJun 27, 2020

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Quarantine in an intangible economy

How will an intangible-intensive economy respond differently to a pandemic - and to the policies governments put in place to control it?

11 min readJun 5, 2020

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Quarantine in an intangible economy

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Hunting for Hinzelmann, or: helping towns without magical thinking

[Spoiler alert: contains minor spoilers to Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”; and major spoilers to bad regional policy.]

13 min readDec 19, 2019

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The strange death of Tory economic thinking

A disturbing change has come over the Conservative Party. It seems to have stopped thinking or talking about economics.

16 min readApr 11, 2019

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Stian Westlake

Stian Westlake

I'm Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council, and co-author of Capitalism Without Capital and Restarting the Future

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