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What might a secular humanist view on economics be?

Taxonomically, my family is Freethinker (including atheists, skeptics, agnostics), my genus is Humanist (including the religion-based), and my species is Secular.”— John Rafferty ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.Amrose Bierce, The Devil'

Understanding the contradictions of the EU through the misunderstanding of Brexiteers

A lot of people don't really understand the EU, which was always going to make a referendum on the UK's membership, like Brexit, something of a problem. Opposition to the EU can come in broadly two different forms. First, you have the small-government advocates who are

The Prime Minister Boris Johnson Portrait

Political Hypocrisy: Vaccines, Capitalism & Greed, and Football

The utter rank hypocrisy of the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has been on show over the last few days. Let me walk you through it. Johnson, in a private meeting of Tory MPs, let the true Tory cat out of the bag: The prime minister's full remarks,

What Do Some People Have Against the Environment?

For some reason, the environment is a trigger idea for right-wingers. The problem is that, as I have stated a number of times, the right takes free-market economics very seriously, but free-market economics cannot arbitrate for negative externalities. Negative Externalities What this means is that, if a company wants to

"Socialism Is Evil"; Yeah, Not a Good Time to Be a Libertarian...

"Socialism Is Evil"; Yeah, Not a Good Time to Be a Libertarian...

Socialism is evil! Venezuela! Communism! CORONAVIRUS... Government, please bail us out! Please help us! Let's work together to make sure of this and of that... Let's nationalise private healthcare provision in the short term... Let's...Let's... I've heard assaults democratic

On Campaign Finance Reform

This comment was from Cajun Exile, on this thread here in response to this video. I'll post it and then reply interlinearly. It received a torrent of upvotes from people, back at whatever forum this guy came from, who piled in with their groupthink upvoting - a very

Regulation, Negative Externalities & Vacuum Cleaners. Again.

I've written on this exact subject before, but there's nothing like repeating myself! Regulation is often seen as contrary to libertarian or conservative principles and against economic flourishing in providing barriers to trade, erected by interfering governments. But, as I have mentioned before, the free market

Bernie Sanders, the Tax Cut, The Deficit and Medicare

Bernie Sanders can see into the future. He predicted exactly what is happening. Watch this. It is a facebook video that I cannot find on YouTube, but turn off your facebook blockers and check the prescience. https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/316817502451200/ Republicans, once fiscal conservatives, used to attack

Crime & Punishment

The Armed Forces and Their Remit, Corporations, and Morality

As many of you know, my self-declared remit here is quite wide. I post on many topics from philosophy of religion through to the social and psychological aspects of religion, from philosophy in general through to politics, economics, morality and beyond. Hopefully, this makes reading the blog a wide and

Wikipedia, the Free Market and Libertarianism

Wikipedia, the Free Market and Libertarianism

This is perhaps one of my favourite quotes from a libertarian free marketeer when I originally posted my articles critiquing free market economics. It's an awesome quote, so I thought I would repost it: Copy and paste this into your web browser, what comes up? Wikipedia. Knew it!

Morality: Regulation, Trump and Brexit

I give myself a wide remit here at ATP, and today I want to talk a bit about regulation. For free marketeers, libertarians and small government and tax right-wingers, "regulation" is a very dirty word. But what is regulation? I think when the word is used, people really

Jesus and Trickle Down Economics

I am involved in a conversation on facebook at the moment about free market economics. The conversation includes some theists (such as Nick Peters) who espouse trickle down economics. I have written about free market economics and trickle down economics at great lengths before, but it is interesting to do

The EU, Free Market Economics, Regulation and Vacuum Cleaners.

Sorry I have been a bit quieter than normal recently, but I have had to prepare for a public debate on the EU referendum obsessively concerning the UK at the moment. I was on a three person panel defending remaining in the EU against three others arguing for leaving. The

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Academisation - A Non-Evidence-Based Ideological Crusade on Education. I Am Angry.

At last our schools will be “set free” by George Osborne. They’ll be “free from local bureaucracy”, no longer run by councils but governed instead by academies, such as the one set up by carpet millionaire Lord Harris. It seems incredible that up until now, no one has taken