War. There’s been a bit of it about. Actually, there’s been whole lot less of it about over the last century or so, believe it or not. Conflict on an international scale is arguably at an all-time low. But, unfortunately, those conflicts are producing more deaths, due to an “inexorable intensification of violence”, according to • Read More »
We went to see a movie last night – Goldstone. Recommended. It struck a chord in relation to this blog, because it has links to the past two major themes: Environment, and Economics. But it came most sharply into focus around another of the circles on the Meanderings mind map. Culture. Without giving up too • Read More »
It’s neither a science, nor an art. Economics is its own form of black voodoo magic, often with less chance of success than a witch-doctor’s blood sacrifice of a young virgin has of appeasing the thunder gods. There’s that particularly pith saying that “economists were invented to make weather forecasters look good”. Merriam-Webster defines economic • Read More »