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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Monday, August 7, 2023

How do we know what we know?

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Positivism is the view that all knowledge is derived by reason and logic from sensory experience. Other ways of knowing, such as theology o...

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Sunday, August 6, 2023

Popularising Economics

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Economics is known as "the dismal science" – but is most decidedly NOT a science! It has indeed become the new religion – worship...

Friday, June 23, 2023

The Fundamental Flaw in the Economists’ view of the world

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I once called myself an economist – it was something graduates of 1960’s British Universities did then. It was sufficiently unusual to be wo...

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Bad Economics and journalistic responsibility

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Bad Economics and journalistic accountability Journalism is such an important bridge between experts, governments and citizens that it used...

Thursday, September 3, 2020

The most readable Guidebooks to Economics

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I have, I readily admit, a certain fixation about the style of social science books – particularly economic ones . I have at least 5 reaso...

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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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