Category: Ideas

November 11, 2024 / Nat Dyer / Economics

Ricardo’s Dream – my new book

I have a new book – my first – coming out later this month. Click above or on the image to find out more.

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November 10, 2021 / Nat Dyer / Ideas

Jeremy Lent’s The Web of Meaning

My reivew of an audacious, valuable and at times mind-twisting synthesis of progressive thinking

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June 23, 2021 / Nat Dyer / Article

The Overview Effect

Frank White tells Nat Dyer about the spiritual impact of seeing the Earth from space.…

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December 9, 2020 / Nat Dyer / Evolution

Magic Mushrooms

A peek into the the intoxicating world of fungi through Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life

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November 9, 2020 / Nat Dyer / Article

“Stand up for your own ideas” – Susan Strange’s remarkable life

Susan Strange (1923-1998) deserves to be known as the professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) who saw the 2008 global financial crisis coming.

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November 9, 2020 / Nat Dyer / Economics

I Never Meant to Be an Academic by Susan Strange

A posthumous ‘guest blog’ by the well-known political economist Susan Strange (1923-1998). Her only published autobiographical writing now online for the first time.

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October 1, 2020 / Nat Dyer / Article

Life and ideas of Mary Midgley

For Philosophy Now magazine

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July 17, 2020 / Nat Dyer / Article

We Are Not Tourists Here

I catch up with a touring biscuit tin in honour of philosopher Mary Midgley

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April 3, 2020 / Nat Dyer / Economics

Complex modelling delayed UK Action on coronavirus

Complex models were at the root of the global financial crisis in 2008. Now, they have delayed action on tackling a global pandemic.

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