Monthly Archives: January 2024

Rational borrowing, irrational repaying

Posted on January 26, 2024 by koenfucius

(featured image: <Lloyds bank.jpg> Moneybright/Flickr CC BY 2.0) There may be more to debt than meets the financial eye. What characteristics makes humans uniquely human among the animals? Many of the obvious candidates turn out to be a matter of … Continue reading →

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Activist thinking – curse or blessing?

Posted on January 19, 2024 by koenfucius

featured image: Alisdare Hickson/Flickr CC BY SA 2.0) There is much to criticize in activism (especially by economists), but is it all bad? Imagine your kidneys have ceased functioning, and you have been needing dialysis for months, waiting for a … Continue reading →

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Reputation for plagiarism

Posted on January 12, 2024 by koenfucius

Plagiarism is certainly worthy of disdain when it constitutes actual theft – collecting payment that the original creator would have received – but why do we also tend to take a dim view of instances of plagiarism where there is … Continue reading →

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Tribeless

Posted on January 5, 2024 by koenfucius

(image: Ronnie Macdonald/Flickr CC BY 2.0) Tribal thinking is the root of a fair amount of evil, but it is hard to resist. Imagine you’re on a week-long trip to a foreign country you’ve never visited before, with a language … Continue reading →

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