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Confessions - the customer is not King and other heresies
Most of what we've been taught about business, markets and economics is untrue. Time for the red pill.
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Jun 2, 20207 min read


After the virus - one big change
"If there is a battle between the planet and mankind, the planet will win" "what's the exit strategy?" is a big question without any kind...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Apr 2, 20205 min read


We have become slaves to consumption - it is destroying the world
From next week my partner and I can no longer live together. I am not a citizen in this bit of Asia and do not perform an "essential"...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Mar 28, 20205 min read

International Financial Institutions in Tomorrow’s Capitalism
For a while now, International Finance Institutions have been trying to integrate their activities better with the wider economic and...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Mar 9, 20202 min read


Because we're big....the size delusion
Get married for love For much of my working life I've wrestled with the problems of partnership - or rather the wrong partners in...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Feb 28, 20205 min read


Making buying stuff a political act
Can we politicise consumption - to distinguish between buying stuff that restores natural and human capital as opposed to depletes it?
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Feb 28, 20203 min read


Herds like locusts
There are far too many animals in Mongolia - it's turning into a desert And a system narrowly focused on "fair" pay for herders makes it...
Nick Keppel-Palmer
Jan 12, 20202 min read
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