Thinking Allowed: “Capital is the lifeblood that flows through the body politic of all those societies we call capitalist, spreading out, sometimes as a trickle and other times as a flood, into every nook and cranny of the inhabited world”, writes David Harvey, the world’s most cited academic geographer. He gives Laurie a radical critique… Read More »
Zimbabwe: How the Berlin Wall collapse affected us: Zimbabweans have no compelling reason to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 – or the fall of Communism, which followed it, domino-like. True or false? Most zealots of the original plot to turn the country into a one-party state pretend it never happened. Or… Read More »
on the American Anthropological Association (AAA) website. From the AAA blog: The economic crisis issue includes: Gillian Tett: Icebergs and Ideologies: How Information Flows Fuelled the Financial Crisis Aaron Pitluck: Ethnography Meets Econometrics: Exploring Daily Work Practices that Lead to Financial Crises Tara Schwegler: The Global Crisis of Economic Meaning Edward F Fischer: Capitalism in… Read More »
… Amartya Sen’s piece, Capitalism Beyond the Crisis, at the New York Times Book Review of Books website. He defends Adam Smith, cautions about Keynes and re-introduces Cecil Pigou. Which kinda made me ask why there was no mention of Polanyi.