Writing a book

If you had spent many years studying economics, for a short time formally and for a long time informally, and had concluded that there was something fundamentally wrong with it, what would you do?

What I did was start reading all over again, but this time with open eyes and pen in hand. Some six years ago, I thought I could see a glimmer of what was wrong, so I started writing a book. No, it is not another expose of the evils of global capitalism, nor the impossibility of socialism, nor the terror of artificial intelligence. It is a simple tale of how the world economy really developed, rather than how economists have said the world developed. A simple tale, but a fairly radical idea.

What if it was really simple? Supposing that economic development was nothing more than the passage of time and the number of people on earth. That's what I am hoping to convince people of in this book.

Tracing our progress from the stone age to the iPhone age and dismissing economic theory on the way. I try to demonstrate in a light hearted way how economies have developed, for better or worse.

Economic history is not some esoteric academic subject, it is simply the history of everyday life. It is not physics, or chemistry, or mathematics, but a gang of people called economists have tried to wrestle it into those subjects. They have failed miserably and, instead, have simply provided justification for whatever the current ruling elite wanted to do.

The book title is Economic Fairy Tales and it will be out on Kindle as an eBook, 10/07/2025 latest. £2.99. A bargain.