Stian Westlake·Jun 1, 2023The Tyranny of MalcolmsA malcolm is a folksy anecdote used to begin a chapter in a nonfiction book. Unfortunately, they’ve gotten out of hand.A response icon20A response icon20
Stian Westlake·Jan 30, 2023Inequality and intangible capitalThese thoughts on the relationship between inequality and intangible capital were written in response to James Plunkett’s Unequality: when…A response icon2A response icon2
Stian Westlake·Feb 12, 2021Put a number on it, conservativesWhere are the right-wing proposals for GDP alternatives?A response icon3A response icon3
Stian Westlake·Sep 24, 2020Bionic duckweed: using the future to fight the presentWhen visions of the future are used, in bad or dubious faith, to undermine action and investment today, that’s bionic duckweedA response icon2A response icon2
Stian Westlake·Jun 27, 2020DARPA vs the Wheely SuitcaseOr, The Quantity vs Quality Theories of InnovationA response icon1A response icon1
Stian Westlake·Jun 5, 2020Quarantine in an intangible economyHow will an intangible-intensive economy respond differently to a pandemic - and to the policies governments put in place to control it?
Stian Westlake·Dec 19, 2019Hunting 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.]A response icon2A response icon2
Stian Westlake·Apr 11, 2019The strange death of Tory economic thinkingA disturbing change has come over the Conservative Party. It seems to have stopped thinking or talking about economics.A response icon3A response icon3
