Friday, December 30, 2016

Thanks God it's Friday

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I have, for the past month or so, been looking over the year’s posts - with a view to compiling a little E-book which allows both their ...
Sunday, December 25, 2016

Romania's "progressive politics" on show once again

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I haven’t posted about Romanian politics for more than a year but - with parliamentary elections on December 11 removing the technocratic ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Blogging as a giving account of one's life

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I notice that I am not the only person who reflects on the year’s blogging experience. Chris Grey is an organisational theorist who star...
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Monday, December 5, 2016

TINA – and the little Trumpets

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In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher introduced us to TINA – her refrain being that “there is no alternative” (to the liberalisation of nationa...
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Sunday, December 4, 2016

A Problem of Identity

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A recent post criticised “political labelling” but ducked the perfectly legitimate question of the descriptor someone with my set of v...
Friday, December 2, 2016

The charm of wine boutiques!

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Markets are fascinating things – whether it's farmers harvesting and distilling grapes and distributing the bottled product to superma...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

In Praise of the Documentary

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I have come late to the work of documentarist Adam Curtis. I had registered a year or so ago his The Century of the Self (2002) which to...
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 ...