The 2020 posts …..so far

The blog marked its 1,500^th post at the beginning of the month – over eleven years. That’s almost 3 posts a week. To celebrate I’ve uploaded the posts for 2020 (86 so far) into a little E-book of some 200 pages which you can find here

I realise this may be a bit daunting for you – so here is the first instalment of a little series I’m offering to entice you into the riches….. I use that word only half-mockingly since the key feature this blog offers is the depth of the hyperlinks it offers into articles and books on important subjects…. It takes the form of one of the tables which have become one of the blog’s distinguishing features – with

-      the first column being the title of a post - to access, just click

-      the second column, trying to identify the event which was the catalyst to the post

-      the final column ,the basic message I would like to think the post should leave with the reader  

The E-book itself starts with an explanation first of the benefits blogging offers; then of why I, in particular, continue to find it a useful self-discipline for almost every morning; and finally why, for the past year, the blog operates with this particular title….. 

The Posts so Far in 2020…..

Title	What sparked it off	The “takeaway” or basic message
To whom it may concern - the 2019 posts	Pride in my posts of the previous year	Tables have become an important self-discipline
Poetry? Maybe	An Adrian Mitchell poem	“Most people ignore most poetry - Because - Most poetry ignores most people”
The Beast destroying the World	Discovering that posts about capitalism were the 2019 posts‘ second favourite topic	Most interesting narratives are from Collier, Hirschmann, Mander, Varoufakis
The Beast – part II	And that few economists could properly explain the global financial crash	My “Dispatches to the Next Generation” identifies more than 200 key books and then whittles that down to 50 or so key texts
Is public administration really all that sexy?	exploring why my fixation about this issue is actually increasing	Events in 2020 have demonstrated how much we have neglected the importance of “the state” in the past 30 years
57 Varieties of Capitalism	The matrix that resulted from an  “ideological triangulation” of a dozen academic disciplines	We need to be more aware of the ideological lens authors are using (often without their own appreciation)
Postmodernism – what is it and does it have a future?	The further thoughts that led me into	It’s been in the air most of us still alive have breathed; we don’t really think about it – nor care…..
My Best Reads of 2019	A useful January exercise	We like to feel, flick and smell the pages of real books
The perils of leaving economics to experts	A great little book called “The Econocracy” with this warning as a sub-title	Economics is a religion – and needs more pluralism and sceptics
The end of a doomed relationship	The leaving of the EU on Jan 31st – Brexit being this blog’s most frequent topic during 2019	To my horror I find that a “Daily Telegraph” article has read my thoughts
Why the British Masochists did what they did	A Dutch friend’s farewell letter	I didn’t do justice to the LEXIT arguments
Does the EU still warrant the support of progressives?	An episode of “The Crown” takes me back to the 1960s and suspicions about a British PM being a Moscow mole	The continuing post-mortem on the British suicide mission
Neutralising Democracy	A superb satire on the british system	Anthony Jay put it all so well in 1989
In Case You Missed it	Frustration with Dropbox	See the E-books listed in the top-right corner of the blog
Links I liked	many significant hyperlinks never see the light of day	I share my morning routines