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  PIG IRON 7: Learning to Think

  Essays in Political Economy: In Which we Set Out the Framework for Learning to Think

  May 28, 2026
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  PIG IRON: Capital is Forcing Labour To Go On Strike

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In Which we Explore AI and the Demand Deficit Contradiction

  May 27, 2026
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  PIG IRON 5: Against the Mythology of Mr Market

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy: In which we set out what markets really are

  May 22, 2026
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  The Stochastic Parrot and the Armchair Progressive

  On AI, the commodification of thought, and why the machine that embodies the problem might also illuminate the argument.

  May 13, 2026
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  PIG IRON 1: How Money Works

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 1: In which we attempt to explain what money is.

  April 21, 2026
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  PIG IRON 0: What This Is

  Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. Part 0: In which we explain what this is for.

  April 21, 2026
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  On How This Works

  A note on methodology aka a shout out to Claude.

  April 20, 2026
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  The Haystack at the Hampstead Theatre review ****

  The Haystack Hampstead Theatre, 31st January 2020 Al Blyth is not your typical playwright. Having studied Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, (disciplines that spend an inordinate amount of time wishing away the presence of us unpredictable humans), he went on to work as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal…

  April 11, 2020