Philosophy

John Bogle’s Platonic vision

On the sublime simplicity of the Vanguard founder’s absolute faith in the humble index fund

The central banks and the view from nowhere

Reflections on our expectations that those who are part of…

Interrogating finance: applying the Socratic method to the markets

Thoughts on how the forensic mode…

Reconsidering risk: restoring the classic distinction between what can be measured and what can’t

On wealth, power and insecurity: a portrait of Crassus, ‘the first tycoon’

Peter Stothard’s portrait of the Roman financier Marcus Licinius Crassus is a study in the insecurities that attend great wealth…

Hume’s humility: coming to terms with the limits of what we can know

A visit to Edinburgh prompts reflections on a philosopher whose insight into the limits of knowledge would have made him a rather good…