Consumer Surplus

My personal Substack

I'm Nick Whitaker. I'm writing here about grand schemes to improve the human condition.

Real and unreal solutions to the Gordian Knot.

Ideas and Impact

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress—a digest of posts from rootsofprogress.org

Tracing the steps towards scientific progress and how to improve our understanding of the world.

Good writing about bad science

We can make things better

New ideas for Ireland

Making the world better, without partisan politics. Theories of change, without copium.

Commerce, culture, and curiosity

Kitstack explains how industrial power, advanced technology, and state capacity shape global affairs.

Economic History

A newsletter about social science, the future, and why people behave in the way that they do.

All the notes the margin was too small to contain. Economics, politics, history.

It's Ed West's sub stack

Thoughts on British politics, policy, and the press.

Markets, tech and policy.

Reflections on progress, politics and society, written from a British perspective.

New and underrated ideas to improve the world. Visit our website: worksinprogress.co

Pondering price theory, past and present. A weekly newsletter covering all things economics.

Semi-regular stories and travel writing about some of the world's most remarkable places, their history, and the people who make them.

Tales from the history of innovation.