Happiness and Well Being are not the same thing. Happiness is about being cheerful in the moment. Well Being is about flourishing and has...

Fear and desire are the twin engines of human survival but with most of our basic needs met these instincts are being engaged to imprison...

Some of my earliest memories are of fascination about how the world works. More than 60 years ago (!) I lay in my bed and looked at pictu...

Although this book suffers from a “we should do things different” problem (words on these lines do not change things easily!), it does co...

Sustainability and the consumer culture are in direct conflict. We are now locked into a set of behaviours based on fossil fuel and “grow...

Taleb was a successful mathematical trader and is now a Professor of Uncertainty. This is a book about prediction and forecasting. Taleb ...

The key argument of this book is that laws and customs are not sufficient in themselves to enable large groups of humans to live together...

The concepts in this book are as simple as they are radical. They are extremely important yet poorly understood. The book is essential re...

The key insight of this work is its clarity in understanding that the development of the internet and its associated structures (like the...

This is a refreshingly honest book by an economist who is fully aware of the shortcomings of “economics” as a predictive social science. ...

Sources of US instability seen as: global computerised trading of capital and stocks deregulation invention of new exotic financial produ...

The War Against Greed 1. Finding the new roots of "Progress" It is time to leave the dark satanic mills behind us.   It is time to say go...

Somehow the winter seems to have rushed past - so fast in fact that I have not had time to update this site! Apologies. The garden is pre...