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Welcome to my website.
I write about the things that interest me: philosophy, finance, social enterprise, politics and art. I aim to write well and to write clearly, but to avoid oversimplification.
There is a saying, beloved of some philosophers, that if you are unable to express an idea clearly you have not understood it properly.
To which I would add, if a complex problem has a simple solution then someone else will have thought of it already.
On this site you will find a selection of my writing, some of which has been published elsewhere and some of which is only available here.
Each time a new piece of writing is added to the site it will also be profiled on this page. The work has been divided into three categories.
Shorter pieces are classified as articles
Longer pieces are classified as essays
Pieces that comment specifically on the work of others are classified as reviews
The site was launched in January 2009. I hope you find it interesting.
If you want to send me comments about the site or about my work please contact me. Click here if you want to know more about me.
Mark
Latest addition
I recently gave a talk at a conference on microfinance, hosted by the Burgundy School of Business in Dijon. My theme was the moral issues involved in the process of lending money to those who are financially excluded and, therefore, who are highly likely to be poor. My argument was that the way in which the borrowers are treated during the process of making the loan is more important, from an ethical point of view, than the price at which the loan is made. You can read a summary of my talk, "The Price of Money", here.
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