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The Trouble with Words

Words are not ideas.  They are our means to capture ideas and make them tangible.  The problem is that words are a porous net that inevitably lets some accuracy slip away, but sometimes captures irrelevant detail that shines brightly in the moment and then dulls in the light of later thought. Trying to define something […]

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Neoliberal Angst?

I wonder why it is that neoliberals so reject the label we have given them.  Is it because they’e embarrassed?  I don’t think so.  They all seem very proud of their attachment to the old order.  Every so often one of them will surface and proclaim bitterly that they are misunderstood and they they don’t […]

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Dark Matter

The mysteries of growth elude us. That’s the best conclusion to draw from reading Dietrich Vollrath’s book “Fully Grown”.  This is unfair to Vollrath whose thesis is simply that recent slower growth can be explained by taking a look at demographics.  Societies with a large elderly population as a percentage of their total are destined […]

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