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, March 7, 2022

The New Certainties

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Strange how we can at one and the same time deplore the “bubbles” in which people operate and yet, unthinkingly, demonstrate groupthink in o...

Monday, January 7, 2019

How will it all end?

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I have long had this naïve belief that the next non-fiction book I select will clear the fog of confusion which seems to hover in my mind...

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Not with a bang ....but a whimper......

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Last year I drew attention to the fact that, despite their prolific output, economists seemed to have some difficulty in making sense of ...

Saturday, March 14, 2015

How governments have bought - and used up - time

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It’s significant that the best expositions of the global economic crisis and its causes do not come from economists……..somehow the frame...

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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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