My name is Jock Coats. I live and work in Oxford, UK. I work in educational IT.
I am educated to degree level in economics. I refrain from referring to myself as “an economist” because what I learned in my degree was what they call orthodox economics, which is generally what people mean if they continue to study it such that they can say they are “an economist”. It tends to involve shilling for the contemporary influences behind our current political-economy problems: the money system, the land system, the political system, the corporate-political conceit that governments can “manage” national economies and so on.
I was once a city councillor in Oxford, and the experience started me down the road to anarchism. The dire state of politics in Britain’s local, and national political administrations makes me wonder how humanity survived this long! Oxford’s intractable housing affordability issues got me interested in the work of 19th century American amateur economist Henry George, whose economics book sales would make most of today’s self-describe “economists” weep with envy.
So here you will likely find a lot about Georgism and how we can do without the mainstream taxes we labour to pay today, a lot about anarchism and how we can do without political government that plays games with our lives and our wealth for their benefit, and quite a lot about Oxford and its issues as they shed light on similar problems elsewhere.