Archive - Consumer Surplus

My BBC Radio 4 documentary on science slowing down

Mar 29

And one thing the government could do instead

Oct 19, 2021

How to help young people after Covid

Jan 24, 2021

How I save and invest money, do my monthly budgeting, and why I don't plan to buy a house

Dec 31, 2020

A list of products that give me a lot of consumer surplus

Nov 26, 2020

England* is about to go into a second lockdown, along with lots of other European countries. It’s possible that the second wave of Covid infections…

Nov 2, 2020

Libertarianism in the UK has had a pretty bad epidemic. Many of the most prominent self-declared libertarians and classical liberals like James…

Sep 23, 2020

This week I helped launch a new online magazine called Works In Progress, along with my friends Saloni Dattani, Nick Whitaker, and Ben Southwood. Thanks…

Aug 30, 2020

Nine misconceptions about why housing is so expensive

Aug 7, 2020

A right to something is said to be inalienable if it cannot be taken away or given up. Jefferson may have been thinking both of the rights to life…

Jul 28, 2020

Welcome to Consumer Surplus. I’m going to use this for longer-form thoughts and ideas than I can do on Twitter, which has become more like an arena for…

Jul 17, 2020

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