Wading Through Treacle

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From Amazon Introduction The theory of long cycles - first identified by Nikolai Kondratiev and later refined by Joseph Schumpeter - propo...

  "No Two Democratic States Have Ever Gone to War" This oft-cited claim is at least approximately true. It holds not as an iron l...

  Girl from the North Country   Bob Dylan with  Suze Rotolo (the Girl from the North Country) This is a much-covered song originally written...

From Amazon I spent a significant number of years contemplating Marx's version of the Labour Theory of Value, recognising its attracti...

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From Amazon “The present generation of economists has witnessed not only a world-wide depression of unusual severity and duration but als...

Amazon Note : if/when the Catholic Church decides to introduce LLM chatbots as theological advisors to the laity , this post may be an exam...

The Yale scientists took possession of 32 pig heads from the abattoir, four hours dead. They then infused the brains with chemicals and sy...