Voter Tests Are Plain Dumb
Impractical, litigious and unwise! Occasionally someone dusts off an old bad idea and presents it as bold reform: What if voters had to pass a test before casting a ballot? Perhaps a…
What values would govern the use of blockchain ledger technology in cooperative economic contexts?
Some preliminary thoughts and ideas – what evolves remains to be seen! An idealised decentralised blockchain ledger system is a distributed network in which no single authority controls the record…
BRICS: Illusion of Power in the Global Political Economy
In 2025, if case anyone thinks BRICS has great combined economic power or some semblance of transnational political power, there is nothing of the sort. The BRICS alliance is sometimes…
Merging of socio-economic interests
“Where there is economic parity, cultural mixing, communication facilities and administrative efficiency, it will be easy and natural for two or more adjoining [socio-economic] units to cooperate, because they will…