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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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Reading Week - II

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The last post identified three categories in my library – “so far unread”, “done and dusted” and “virtual”. But I now realise that there is...

Thursday, February 21, 2019

A better economics

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No sooner was my post about The Global Minotaur up than I found another of Yanis Varoufakis’ books freely available on the internet – this ...

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Global Minotaur

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A blog with a good search facility is a fantastic resource - able to summon up a vaguely-remembered reference. A few days ago, I realized t...

Sunday, June 3, 2018

"With a little help from my Friends"

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Friends of this blog have noticed my silence these past few months….and I’m grateful for signs that readers haven’t completely given up on ...

Sunday, August 27, 2017

A Political Economy Thriller

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Yanis Varoufakis is like the treacly spread product Marmite – which people either love or hate – there seems no compromise between the tw...

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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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