Houses are getting more expensive. In this post, I look at the reasons why.

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The state of the world from the elite point of view.

I crunch the numbers on oil-and-gas depletion in Alberta.

Yes you should read ‘Scale’. No, don’t believe everything it says.

Here’s the blog summary of my paper ‘Economic development and the death of the free market’.

I explore how sociality underpins the evolution of big life.

My talk given to the University of Texas Energy Symposium.

I take a look at kinetic exchange models of income, and what we can learn from their mistakes.

I review Carey King’s new book ‘The Economic Superorganism’.

I look at the degrowth that might be achieved by eliminating inequality.