Many people are familiar with Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (WoN), But Smith’s ethical thinking was just as important.

We do take this to be a part of how the whole capitalism, markets, technological cycle works. We have some reasonable solution to a perceived human need or want. Businesses start up to provide that solution.

I’ve just received and read The Happiness Experiment, a new book by my friend Carl B Barney. And a very interesting read it is. 

Trump is upending European security and global trade, also spooking public and private sector players with conduct seen at best as short-sighted, at worst as arbitrary and unpredictable.

Apparently we’ve one of those economic crimes calling out to the very heavens for rectification.

The old order has been swept away. Let us try something new.

The essential premise of the economic proposals of Professor Mariana Mazzucato is that if we get all those really clever people in government to really think hard and do stuff to us then we’ll be better off.

There are no permanent victories in the battle for liberty and the economic prosperity that it engenders.

We know that Guardian readers are being told this - look, it’s right there in the newspaper - but whether they’ll make that mental leap to know it is unknown.

We have all encountered the practice of shrinkflation, where producers reduce the size or weight of their product to avoid having to increase its price.

One of the proofs that we are not a party political organisation is that we welcome good policy wherever it stems from.