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according to hoyle: dicing on the card sharpers
In Las Vegas, the hotel windows are always locked to prevent jumping. Samuel Pepy’s was one of the first to articulate the phenomenon, calling it “deep gaming”, a kind of instinct deep rooted based on the idea, counter to Einstein, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Atherton author, Charles II England, Edmund Hoyle, Einstein, Henry Fielding, Herbert M. Atherton, James Balmford, James Gillray, Jane Austen, John Montagu, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Northbrooke, Restoration of Charles II, Samuel Pepys, Susanna Centlive, Thomas Gataker, Thomas Rowlandson, William Byrd III, William Hogarth
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enlightenment by design: build a better world?
The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adam Smith, Arthur Gobineau, Ben Grasso, Friedrich Nietzsche, giovanni battista vico, Herder linguist, Horace Walpole, John Maynard Keynes, Lyonel Feininger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marquis de Sade, Max Horkheimer, Paul Gauguin, Theodor Adorno, Voltaire
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fat chance & new jerusalem: the equity of pessimism
And the meek shall inherit the debt. Is there an ethical emphasis to economics? Rick Salutin: So here are some Christmas presents from the Judeo-Christian tradition that I hope will find favour with deniers and those who just don’t care … Continue reading
in search of vigor
An illness of the nerves. It reveals an underlying stress about our fears about the body. A dissociation between body and soul as mutually antagonistic with only the faintest hope of reconciliation.Hypochondria is a very old name for a malady … Continue reading
DANCE NOW PAY LATER: LIQUIDITY TRAP BALLET
The consequences of John Maynard Keynes.He conceived the economic machinery that runs our lives. His brilliant engine, despite overhauls and tune-ups continues to run erratically. Is it the driver or the roads?… Keynes identified the economic importance of animal spirits. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Adam Smith Wealth of Nations, Bernie Madoff, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, David Ricardo, David Sarna, Duncan Grant, Friedrich A. Hayek, George Melloan, Ike Brannon, Jean Cocteau, Joan Bakewell, John Kenneth Galbraith, John Muth, Leonard Woolf, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Madoff, Michael Arditti, Mozart, Picasso, Robert B. Reich, Robert J. Samuelson, Roger Fry, Satie, Sir Roy Harrod, Virginia Woolf, William Roberts
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CITY OF SOTS: METAPHYSICAL LOVE & “JOVIAL ROARING”
“The doppelgänger represents the side of our nature which must be suppressed in a civilised ordering of society.When the straitlaced Presbyterian physician of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde drinks his potion, he releases the more feral and lustful part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Adam Smith Wealth of Nation, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edward Topham, Henry Dundas, Ian Rankin, J.M. Wright, James Boswell, James Hogg, James Robertson, James Singleton, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Muriel Sparks, Robert Burns, Robert Crumb, Robert Dighton, Robert Fergusson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robin Williams, Sir William Allan
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PINOCCHIO,PROFITS & PEE WEE: ''another NICE mess''
At the G20 Summit in Toronto last week, the major accomplishment was the agreement on the ”Toronto Consensus”, which proclaimed in light of the Tsunami of fiscal stimulus hosed into a river of existing, and backlogged promises to spend, these … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Alexander Berkman, Allen Stanford, Anarchism, Anarchists, Angela Merkel, Bakunin, Ben Bernanke, Bernard Madoff, Black Bloc, Chen Wenling, David Letterman, Director James Horne, Fabians, Fabrice Tourre, Gandhi, Gandhi Groupies, Hal Roach Studios, Henry Clay, Henry Clay Economist, Henry Fonda, John Ibbitson, John Maynard Keynes, John Stuart Mill, Lady Gaga, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Mark Rothko, Matt Taibbi, Mikhail Bakunin, Neil Reynolds, New York magazine Steve Fishman, Oliver Hardy, Pee Wee Herman, Peter Hodson, Pinocchio, PVM Oil Futures Limited, Reginald Rose, Roberto Benigni, Rolling Stone Magazine, Scott kauffman ThinkGeek, Sidney Lumet, Sprott Asset Management, Stan Laurel, Stephen Perkins, Steve Fishman, The Daily Bail, ThinkGeek, Tom Cruise, Toronto Consensus G20, Zoe Brennan
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