Showing posts with label academia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academia. Show all posts
Monday, December 26, 2011

Reverse technology transfer

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Brits of my generation are proud of the BBC and its reputation. The political and economic hits, however, it has taken from successive recen...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Social Science as Sorcery

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This is a period of my life when I try to sort out the sense and the nonsense from what I have absorbed from the social science literatur...
Friday, January 21, 2011

academic amnesia

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I mentioned some time back O Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias – whose entire book I had downloaded (for free). I had read the first few p...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Why academia is irrelevant

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The snow has at last reached Bucharest – although it’s fairly wet. We walked yesterday to Strada Doamnei (just off Piate Universitate) which...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Democratic Discontents

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Warning! This is a long post! Questions about the capacity of government in general and the political system in particular has been promi...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

A Lament on the impotence of democratic politics

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Craig Murray’s latest post looks at the latest 2 examples of the collusion between government and commercial interests ( Vodaphone and BA...
Sunday, October 18, 2009

tower of babel

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Pieter Bruegel the elder (1563) I ended my last post with an attack on universities. This is not the first time I have found myself atta...