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6 post-Corona Institutional questions
The mass hysteria of the corona crisis is raging, with the resulting self-isolation of whole economies and populations. The loss seems greater with every new forecast on the economic collapse than I initially thought, and the benefit of imprisoning and … Continue reading
Hierarchy and generative orders: some introductory thoughts
This is now the whole article. Comments have been closed on the previous post. Part One To command nature, we must obey it Francis Bacon, 1624 The commitments that bind us to the social body are obligatory only because they … Continue reading
Whose game is it anyway? A teachable moment from the year of living distantly
I congratulate you on the great success of your performance … Oscar Wilde’s improptu speech to the audience at the opening of Lady Windemere’s Fan 1 The current emptying of audiences offers a teachable moment about the construction of markets and the … Continue reading
Conservative, liberal, social democrat 2.0
Hats off to Joseph Walker who’s podcasting up a storm at The Jolly Swagman (Yes, the title gave me the wrong idea too.) Anyway, I often find long-form podcasts rather tedious (except where I’m being interviewed in which case I find them endlessly … Continue reading
The ghost of Descartes: Why is economics so uninterested in practical problem solving?
Initially published as Part One. Now with the final two sections added. Minds are not for thinking, traditionally conceived, but for doing, for getting things done in the world in real time Wilson and Foglia, “Embodied Cognition“, Stanford Encyclopedia of … Continue reading
Car manufacturing and Australia: Nothing ventured, nothing gained
What might have been, had we had a crack. Herewith a piece commissioned by Sam Roggeveen and appearing previously at the Lowy Institute’s blog, now for the delectation of the cognoscenti here at Troppo. 1975 – The odd tale of … Continue reading
The Weinstein case: is #Metoo delivering justice?
They got him! It cost millions of dollars in legal fees, and involved multiple trials, settlements, and dismissal of the worst charges, but they convicted Harvey Weinstein. A bit like a buck who is taken down by a pack of … Continue reading
