Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Amitai Etzioni RIP

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Today I want to celebrate the life of one of the most interesting sociologists of the modern age - Amitai Etzioni may have lived to the gra...

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

The Future of Capitalism - IV

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“Acknowledgements” are normally the least-read section of any book – into which are pored often embarrassingly-excessive expression of than...

Sunday, August 11, 2019

Can the genie be put back in the bottle? part III of the discussion of Collier's Future of Capitalism

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Half-way through writing this post I discovered that the great Branko Milanovic was also these days thinking and writing about Paul Collie...

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains

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