Hi,
Just read Matt Slater’s great post on the issue of going into administration for Portsmouth Football Club. Some of you may not be football fans – that’s not important. Step beyond the content and look at the human (more…)
Archive for the ‘Individual behaviour’ Category
Portsmouth FC in admin, RBS in loss: the same or different?
Thursday, February 25th, 2010More software aggravation and acceptance of the substandard
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Okay, I’ll step past my frsutrations of the last few days – I’ve practiced my ‘7 Swift Steps to taking the edge off stress’ [more on that over the next few posts].
A few questions remain: (more…)
Drug advisor quits – drugs politicised?
Monday, November 2nd, 2009UK drug advisor Dr Les King resigned following the chief drugs advisor to the UK government Prof David Nutt.
His reasoning was that he felt that Prof Nutt should be able to make a comment in public about policy on drugs, whilst also being a government advisor – even when his comments go against the policy decided by government. The sense from both Nutt and King is that this government [during the time of Blair/Brown as PMs] has cherry-picked (more…)
Kate Adie: into danger
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Hi, how are you? Here’s the second in a brief triptych of posts based on listening to talks at the Oxford Literary Festival [now over until next year].
Kate Adie gave a sharp and witty talk around her new book which explores (more…)
Vince Cable, The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Hi, this is a post about language and interpretation, not really economics – honest.
On Sunday 29th March I went to listen to Vince (more…)
The distribution of wealth, inequality and errors
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Hi, I found this intriguing little diagram from the ESRC, “Wages and the distribution of wealth in the UK“, whilst researching a recent post.
Yes, it came with all the little images too. Anyway it’s the data that intrigued me, and I wonder how this has shifted over the last 6-7 years and since the 1970s for example.
Well the Joseph Roundtree Foundation did a study (more…)
Vandals or vigilantes?
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Following my last post, an interesting little sidebar so to speak.
Attack on Sir Fred Goodwin’s home (more…)
Saving the banks, what message was sent?
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Yes, I know this is more about banking and economics you might say. Actually it’s about human individual and social patterns, it’s just the examples are in finance/economics…to a point. Today’s is a military and literary reference.
In the novel ‘Candide’ Voltaire wrote: (more…)
Sir Fred Goodwin’s good win and accountability
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Sir Fred Goodwin, knighted in 2004 by the incumbant Labour government in the UK for services to banking. Now ex-CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland, having joined as deputy CEO and been key to the take over of NatWest, at the time a bank about three times the size of RBS. Wow!
Following that ’success’ the bank, led by Goodwin and his fellow board members, went (more…)
Short-termism, your brain and the credit crunch
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Of late there have been some interesting pieces on another route to the short-termist behaviour I mentioned last post. The topic of these pieces is about damage or undevelopment of the pre-frontal lobe in your brain.
It’s undevelopment can arise, it seems, by you not being (more…)