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Economics as Myth Making

Well that was an interesting summer.  At least I managed to reduce my pile of unread books slightly.  Only one or two to go.  And now it’s back to … what exactly?  So little seems to change.  There are just so many times I can read sentences beginning with “Neoclassical theory does not explain …”. […]

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Technology: Being and Belief

Untethered from questions of inflation, infrastructure spending, and cryptocurrencies, all of which have been occupying my time in recent weeks, permit me time to speculate on something a little more provocative [this remains a work in progress]: E. O. Wilson was here before us when he said: “We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone […]

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Techno Babble

What is about technology?  It’s either a panacea for all our ills, or it’s the cause of all the aforesaid ills.  Why can’t we make up our minds? This morning’s Financial Times is, sort of, a good demonstration of the confusion we are in. On the one hand there’s any article about cryptocurrencies.  On the […]

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