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This is not a blog which opines on current events. It rather uses incidents, books (old and new), links and papers to muse about our social endeavours.
So old posts are as good as new! And lots of useful links!

The Bucegi mountains - the range I see from the front balcony of my mountain house - are almost 120 kms from Bucharest and cannot normally be seen from the capital but some extraordinary weather conditions allowed this pic to be taken from the top of the Intercontinental Hotel in late Feb 2020

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Revised Favourite Blogs

One of this blog's many features is the list of my favourite blogs. It's a long list - some 50 in total which I've accumulated during the past decade and brought up to date today, removing a couple which no longer gave access and adding others - mainly book blogs.
The focus of the blogs is fairly diverse - a fair number deal with political or economic issues as you would expect but several connect to book blogs, collections of art  -  and a couple celebrate photography
It's  now more easily accessible - at the top of the right-hand column.

For my money, the most interesting blogs are -
Brave New Europe - good open site committed to bring down the neo-liberal thought collective
Crooked Timber - a collective blog of US and Australian academics with occasional group assessments of non-fiction books. Quite excellent
- Mainly Macro - one of the best-written blogs (by Prof Simon Wren-Lewis) on UK socio-economic matters
- Our Finite World - quite excellent blog by an energy specialist
- Stumbling and mumbling - rigorous application of method to contemporary issues by a UK economist
- The next recession - a rare marxist blog which makes real sense
- The Political Economy of Development - a quite fascinating blog by someone who has some of the same background as me (although younger and without the political experience). But the same dedication to books....
- Understanding society - rigorous blog by a real social scientist - Dan Little of the US

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