Tag Archives: History

The long view: The current war:

The Aztec capital reconstructed by Thomas Kole and collaborators:

An American professor’s perspective as reported on Irwin Collier’s Economics in the Rear-View Mirror: On an October morning, some years since, a recent Vermont graduate and I entered together the Aula of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University at Berlin. Lectures were still two weeks away; but Germany is a country of leisurely beginnings and this was the morning of matriculation. The great hall was thronged with an interesting company. At a long table sat the Rector Magnificus, Harnack, the...

Lost Prison Interview With Hermann Goering: The Nazi Reichsmarschall’s Revelations [embedded content]

Goodreads rating 4.19. A sweeping novel of 950 pages (!) which starts on page 960. The Nobel laureate describes hundreds of characters, with even more names; immerses in countless locations, languages, and creeds. Her protagonists always remain strangers. There is something wonderful in being a stranger, in being foreign, something to be relished, something as alluring as candy. It is good not to be able to understand a language, not to know the customs, to glide like a spirit among...

Goodreads rating 4.19. Graeber’s book contains many interesting historical observations but lacks a concise argument to convince a brainwashed neoclassical economist looking for coherent arguments on money and debt. After 60 pages, 340 more seemed too much. Chapter one: … the central question of this book: What, precisely, does it man to say that our sense of morality and justice is reduced to the language of a business deal? What does it mean when we reduce moral obligations to debts? …...

An incredibly fascinating and gripping story of the modern age. Agenda:– Who was Ceausescu? (10min)– What happend? (30min)– How was life under his regime? (20min)– Q&A Join here: https://meet.jit.si/socialismkills About the speaker:Tudor is probably the best historian and tour guide combination one could ask for.– an unbreakable libertarian spirit and– specialist for socialism with a focus on Romania / Eastern Bloc– has close ties thanks to family members who were active in...

An incredibly fascinating and gripping story of the modern age. Agenda:– Who was Ceausescu? (10min)– What happend? (30min)– How was life under his regime? (20min)– Q&A Join here: https://meet.jit.si/socialismkills About the speaker:Tudor is probably the best historian and tour guide combination one could ask for.– an unbreakable libertarian spirit and– specialist for socialism with a focus on Romania / Eastern Bloc– has close ties thanks to family members who were active in...

Goodreads rating 4.55. Surprising, sympathetic.

Part I can be found here Claudio Grass (CG): Overall, apart from the obvious economic consequences of the crisis, do you also see geopolitical and social ones, on a wider scale? Given all these “moving parts”, from the upcoming US election and internal frictions in the EU to the Hong Kong tensions and the rising public discontent in Latin America, where do expect the chips to fall once this is over?  Jayant Bhandari (JB): What I have told you about India to a large...