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”.

Monday, June 26, 2023

Wising up with old age

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Earlier this month I tried to do a post on what I had learned about power – but it rather petered out when I realised how many of the books ...

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, June 21, 2023

Political Culture makes a Comeback

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“ Heaven is where the police are English, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and everything is organized...

Monday, June 19, 2023

Snippets

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Whenever an item on the internet catches my eye, I copy its url and transfer it to a special file which has now grown to 40 pages. Time ther...

Thursday, June 15, 2023

What’s Left of the Left?

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I do understand that many readers dislike wading through chunks of text and like to get to the “bottom line”. That’s why, a couple of years...

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Monday, June 12, 2023

Can Economics change its Spots?

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I’ve written fairly savagely about economists in the past – so it’s about time I recognised there are some in the new generation who are thi...

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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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