Tag: Decisions
The wisest choices depend on instinct and careful analysis
We have a large consultancy business of transport modellers, environmental experts, risk managers and impact assessment modellers, the front line of an army that has turned evidence-based policy into policy-based evidence.
English law cannot stop Scots being sterling squatters
In today’s world of global business and finance, people make agreements in whatever currency they like and under whatever legal system they choose.
A stealthy step towards abolishing income tax
The man who “laboureth much, and sparing the fruits of his labour, consumeth little” should not, Hobbes argued, pay more “than he that liveth idlely, getteth little, and spendeth all he gets”.
The Co-op’s mistake was to detach responsibility from power
The test of an organisational structure is not how it handles success but how it copes when things go wrong.
Currency unknowns weigh on an independent Scotland
Whatever Mr Salmond may say, there has to be a plan B.
Do not criminalise traders just for being in the know
Obtaining better information about companies is essential to the efficiency of markets and society: obtaining it fractionally earlier is of no public value at all.
Coastal dwellers should take their own chances
When the sea defies mankind’s efforts to keep it in place, the shore people want these costs, too, to fall on the public at large.
Scottish independence matters less than you think
The centre of political gravity in Scotland is far to the left of that of the UK and that is at the centre of the concerns – widely held but little expressed – of Scottish business over independence.
The Olympic optimism bias has left the taxpayer out of pocket
The Olympiad was a good party, which cost the British population about £200 per head.
Why I ignore Apple’s silly reams of terms and conditions
My decision not to read the terms of agreement when purchasing a new television is not the result of my stupidity and ignorance, but my wisdom.
