Wading Through Treacle

Amazon link Some excitement about this book over at Backreaction . This from ' naivetheorist ' in the comments. ".. a ne...

Amazon link I was going to review Richard Morgan's latest tech-thriller " Thin Air " which I enjoyed a lot. But Steven Po...

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From Wikipedia : "Although 40–65% of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients have at least one copy of the ε4 allele, ApoE4 is not a de...

In the previous post, " Five questions on the last days of capitalism ", I discussed the evolution and final fate of capitalism...

1. Isn't it absurd, in this day and age, to talk about the last days of capitalism? The prospect certainly isn't imminent. For...

Classes in Contemporary Capitalism Amazon link From the preface: "The book starts with a general theoretical essay that for th...

My mother, Beryl Seel, died on the 3rd of December 2015 aged 92. In August the previous year I had persuaded her to spit into the 23andMe ...

In the summer of 1977 I decided to leave teaching. I had spent a couple of years at Ormonde High School (now Maghull High School ), an ex-se...

What actually happens to a capitalist economy as automation increases, employees are laid off and the budget for workers' wages tends to...