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Sam Bowman
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Sam Bowman writes Consumer Surplus, a personal blog at sambowman.co about economics and politics. Since 2023, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Democracy Is the Solution to Vetocracy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Sam Bowman's posts on UK economics and policy, including a piece on democracy and vetoes and a critique of UBI trials as a fix for housing costs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A newsletter by Sam Bowman.
Most-linked posts?
- Democracy Is the Solution to Vetocracy3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-06-03
What Hacker News says?
After over a decade of mismanagement and missed opportunities from successive governments of the conservative party this is hardly surprising. The UK doesn't look like it's going to rebound for many years, there are now significant structural issues, not least of them being poor infrastructure. I found this analysis of the UK particularly interesting: https://www.sambowman.co/p/democracy-is-the-solution-to-veto...
Comment linking /p/democracy-is-the-solution-to-vetocracy
on “UK Fell into Recession in 2023”Submitted Britain Is a Developing Country as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThese UBI trails have been coming up again and again without actually solving anything. 95% of the developed world have a problem with housing cost. UBI does little to zero to solve that. May be worth submitting this on HN from @patrickc https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1665087620798349318 https://www.sambowman.co/p/democracy-is-the-solution-to-veto...
Comment linking /p/democracy-is-the-solution-to-vetocracy
on “Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in England”Submitted Democracy Is the Solution to Vetocracy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Growth Is a Policy Choice as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twenty million Londoners: the solution to Britain's housing crisis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Democracy Is the Solution to Vetocracy as a story · 1 points
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