Teeming Multitudes

 During the Second World War, the US government tried to use savings to mop up demand and keep consumer prices stable. Price stability throu...

Tim Sahay aka 70sBacchan on Twitter, reviews "Price Wars" by Rupert Russell, a book about how financialized commodity markets sow...

 Sri Lanka is in trouble .  This seems to have begun when a terrorist attack scared away tourists. The country found itself short of foreign...

 Again from James C Scott's "Two Cheers for Anarchism"

 James C Scott in his "Two cheers for Anarchism," about the desire to escape from politics into some imaginary world of objectivit...

Tombstone of Vellibia Ertola, who lived ‘most happily for four years and six days.’ She’s shown holding a ball, maybe her favourite toy. 

From Isabella Weber's "How China escaped Shock Therapy", a passage from The Guanzi , which was apparently composed by Chinese ...

 Back in the 1990s, when the Cold War was melting away, we were repeatedly told that the ties of trade will make it impossible for new great...