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aje on March 15, 2021

These are longer essays published on Medium:

Notes:
- Whose Bastards? Notes on Slobodian (2025), May 2025
- The seven bankers myth, April 2025
- Exploring neoliberalism: Notes on Monbiot & Hutchison (2024), April 2025
  - Republished as Book review: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, IEA Substack, June 2025
- Choosing your targets: notes on Brown (2019), February 2025
- The power of ideas: notes on Zubok (2021), December 2024
Economics:
- The Grand Narrative, February 2025
- Economics Mission Statement, March 2018
- Economics is a mystery, January 2017
- What should (chief) economists do?, April 2019
Research:
- Guest Editing with MDPI, August 2025
Teaching:
- The French Breakdown, October 2024
- Probability estimates don’t always help decision making, May 2024
- Creating good multiple-choice question exams, February 2021
  - Republished as “How to structure a multiple choice question exam” Times Higher Education, January 10th 2022
  - Republished as “Creating worthwhile multiple choice questions for higher education assessment” Times Higher Education, December 21st 2021
- How homeschooling has affected my teaching, May 2020
- Challenges of implementing more participant-centred learning, April 2018
- The Faculty Roundtable, September 2017
Everton:
- Goodison Park’s 10 most iconic matches, February 2025
- There are places I’ll remember, February 2025
- Planning beats probability – Part 2, March 2024
- Planning beats probability – Part 1, March 2024
Belarus:
- Which way forward for Belarus?, July 2020
- My Journey to Belarus, July 2018
Other:
- Enlightened Management, May 2020
- Sources of consumer surplus, May 2020

(Medium hasn’t achieved what many lapsed bloggers had hoped. But I prefer it to Substack because I don’t like consuming essays via email).

For a list of all posts within the Course Map Category, see my Course Map.

Here are two offshoots from my chapter on “A Social Entrepreneur’s Toolbox” which featured in the CADI publication: An applied guide to social entrepreneurship.

Here is a list of my non academic work:

The Chronicles of Sammi the Monkey (2019)
Jottings from California (2012)
The Art and Life of Thought (2009)
“Ambition” in The Liver Bards (The Brodie Press, 2002)
- Awarded the Miriam Allott Prize for poetry
Ecstatic (2002)

My theatre reviews are available here. Here’s my review of Saul Bellow’s Herzog.

I have 7 articles in the Research Category:

I have 12 posts in the Menu category:

My guides:

Other:

Essays on Life

My reading lists:

Here is a complete list of the other articles published on this website (several of which have also appeared in my Newsletter):

Extracurricular
- Middle East, September 2025
- Kosovo, April 2025
- Berlin, April 2025
- Romania, April 2025
- Tip jar, March 2024
- The Bank of England Museum, February 2024
- The Museum of Neoliberalism, February 2024
- Montalbert, February 2024
- Zagreb, November 2023
- Belgrade, October 2023
- A Tour of London’s Markets, December 2020
- A Macroeconomic Tour of London, December 2020
- New York, February 2020
- Poker, February 2020
- How to…, January 2020
- Catallaxism, January 2020
- My websites, January 2020
- Packing, October 2019
- Media Engagements, November 2018
- Travel Guide to Minsk, July 2018
- Podcasts, March 2018
- Classic interview questions, February 2018
- Performance Review, December 2016
- The Krupnik Medal, May 2016
- Charity, November 2015
- Personal finance MOT, November 2015
- Rejection, November 2015
- Decision Making Framework, November 2015
- My Guide to Travel, March 2015
- Missing Puddy, February 2015
- WW1 Battlefields, August 2014
- Coach, May 2014
- Fulbright, May 2014
- The Shin Film List

Pedagogy
- Student FAQs, July 2024
- Milton Friedman and corporate social responsibility, June 2024
- Generative AI, September 2023
- Writing a corporate memo, November 2021
- The case method, October 2021
- Classroom technology, July 2019
- Making Videos, December 2018
- Country Competitiveness Dashboard, October 2016
- Online Learning, March 2016
- Dynamic AD-AS Model, March 2016
- Thesis supervision, November 2015
- An Introduction to Game Theory, February 2015
- Faculty Audits, October 2014
- Textbooks, March 2013
- Session List, March 2013

Courses

Seminars
- Markets: Beyond AI – ongoing
- Macro Trends – ongoing
- Confronting Uncertainty
- Emergency Monetary Policy in Europe, June 2016
- Economic Freedom 101, April 2016
- Monetary Theory and Policy Workshop, December 2015
- A Short Introduction to Macroeconomic Policy, May 2015
- Numeracy Skills Bootcamp, February 2015
- Markets for Managers: A Case Method Seminar, March 2013
- EU Debt Write Off, August 2012
- Colloquium on J.B. Say, April 2011
- Colloquium on Sound Money, April 2011
- Macro Bootcamp, August 2010
- Collecting and Presenting Data, June 2010

Online Units

Publish or perish!
- Referee Reports, March 2019
- Writing reviews, February 2018
- The One Week Paper, August 2010
- Advice on Surviving Grad School, March 2010
- The Conference Handbook II, March 2010
- Guide to Conducting Industrial Interviews, March 2006
- Writing a Case Study, March 2006
- Comments on doing fieldwork, March 2005
- Writing “One-Pagers”, March 2005
- Research Article Template, March 2005
- The Comparative Method, March 2005
- Writing a Literature Review, March 2004

Suggested reading
- Long reads, October 2023
- Categories, March 2021
- Christmas, December 2018
- Management Reading List, September 2016
- Business One Pagers, September 2016
- MBA Library, July 2012
- The Economist: An MBA Reader, May 2011
- An Undergraduate Austrian School Reading List, August 2010
- The Austrian School Classics, August 2010
- Contemporary Pathways in Austrian Economics, July 2010
- Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle, July 2010
- Resources on the Financial Crisis, June 2010
- Recommended Pop Economics, March 2010
- Course Readings, March 2010

Finally, some links to my favourite Twitter threads…

…and my favourite Twitter jokes:

Category: suggested reading