American economy
The Kay household has had another great year. Visa extended its credit limit, and has raised its investment to an all time high.&...
Business Purpose, Instrumentality, and Obliquity
Britain has a record of building some of the most successful companies in the world. Compani...
Anti-trust
We should usually be happy when legal disputes are settled between the parties rather than fought in the courts. Conciliation is...
Derrida
‘No one in the lunch room has ever heard of him. I can look him up on Google if you like’. When The Guardian newspaper sou...
US elections
It is inevitable that elections will sometimes be too close to call. But there are several reasons why such an outcome is ...
House prices
Is this the end of the house price boom? There has never been a house price bubble, as there was a bubble in dot.com stocks, Vict...
Copyright – academic articles
My sceptical article on copyright in June provoked a furious reaction from industry lobbyists. Some correspondents even emphasise...
Markets for original equipment and spare parts
King Gillette discovered that he could give safety razors away because he would more than recoup the cost from sales of blades. H...
Oracles
The America of the 1990s was fortunate to have not just one, but two, oracles. The course of events could be divined from the con...
Mobile phones: moon made of cheese
Four years ago, the German auction for mobile phone licences closed. Telecoms operators in Europe paid around €100 billion for li...