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Why Greek debt is a problem — Crooked Timber
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Why Greek debt is a problem. July 8, 2015. Daniel wrote a post. Some months ago which has a useful point about Greek debt. Don’t think of the Greek debt burden, either in cash € terms or as a ratio to GDP. Used to impose as a quid-pro-quo for emergency loans to countries in crisis, and the massive efforts to restructure the political systems of Afghanistan and Iraq post invasion. Obviously these past efforts have mostly turned out pretty badly (perhaps you can argue some of the IMF. 070815 at 3:18 pm.
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The discovery of deflation. | Trollblog
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Is Economics a Science? John Emerson’s media empire. It’s our turn, motherfucker. December 25, 2014. The discovery of deflation. Posted by John Emerson under Uncategorized. A cultural history of inflation in America. Greider, William,. Simon and Schuster, 1987. Nugent, Walter,. Money and American Society. 1865-1880, Free Press, 1968. Friedman, Milton,. A Monetary History of the. 1867-1960, Princeton, 1963. Friedman, Milton, Bimetallism Reconsidered. Hoover Institute, 1989. Mihm, Stephen,. 8220;But above ...
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Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education”, II | Haquelebac
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An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur. Flaubert’s “Sentimental Education”, II. And he went into a private room by himself. Through the two open windows he could see people in the windows of the houses opposite. Broad puddles quivered like watered silk on the drying asphalt, and a magnolia at the edge of the balcony filled the room with its perfume. This scent and the cool of the evening soothed his nerves; and he sank onto the red divan under the mirror…. Flaubert, after several false st...
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The New Apocrypha — Crooked Timber
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December 19, 2011. Intellectually minded Christians, in particular, had a habit of talking about Hitchens as though he were one of them already — a convert in the making, whose furious broadsides against God were just the prelude to an inevitable reconciliation. (Or as a fellow Catholic once murmured to me: “He just protests a bit too much, don’t you think? Myself, I find Harry Houdini a. 121911 at 8:45 pm. So anyone who doesn’t despair of life is a closet xtian? 121911 at 8:50 pm. I think it’s Dou...
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Russia under Putin | Haquelebac
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An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur. Guest post by by Greg Afinogenov. Greg Afinogenov is a PhD candidate in Russian history at Harvard University. He is currently working on his dissertation on intelligence and Russo-Qing relations in the eighteenth century. His essays have appeared in the London Review of Books,. And online in n 1, Bookforum,. Century Germany. After all, Russian neo-Nazis have always seemed to be a losing proposition as a mass-political phenomenon: by crudely usi...
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The Dread Pirate Roberts as Statebuilder — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/02/20/the-dread-pirate-roberts-as-statebuilder
The Dread Pirate Roberts as Statebuilder. February 20, 2015. My new piece at Aeon. Russell L. Carter. 022015 at 5:46 pm. 022015 at 6:03 pm. I really really like this essay. 022015 at 6:03 pm. That’s a very interesting and enjoyable article! 022015 at 6:05 pm. I am halfway through this piece and loving it and chortling aloud. 022015 at 6:07 pm. The pressure to introduce rating systems to handle trust is a current bugbear of mine. In many tech circles (and in a chunk of the academic literature) they se...
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David Frum on the crisis in the mediterranean — Crooked Timber
http://crookedtimber.org/2015/07/29/david-frum-on-the-crisis-in-the-mediterranean
David Frum on the crisis in the mediterranean. July 29, 2015. David Frum is a US pundit, who writes on US politics. So, being based elsewhere, I don’t usually pay a lot of attention to him. Unfortunately, today, somebody drew my attention to this article in the Atlantic. Here’s Frum (and Frum quoting Saunders):. What these migrants are doing is what migrants have always done: they’re pursuing a better life. But although migration is attractive to the migrants, it is unwanted by European electorates a...
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A Short History of Populism in America | Trollblog
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Is Economics a Science? John Emerson’s media empire. It’s our turn, motherfucker. December 31, 2013. A Short History of Populism in America. Posted by John Emerson under Uncategorized. What is involved in such a disdainful rejection [of populism] is, I think, the dismissal of politics tout court. Everyone is talking about populism, but no one can define it. The opening sentence of Gellner’s introduction to the 1971 anthology. Populism: Its National Characteristics. In the continental sense). As the debat...
