Inspired by an article in Monthly Review. A common discussion when studying economics and development studies is the question of poverty - what is it? Can someone in Bramford who cannot afford to send their kids to summer camp really be compared to a struggling family in Ethiopia, barely surviving off subsistence farming? Of course […]

By way of The Longbow Papers, a very good article that explains why the US is so much more conservative than similar countries in Europe.
Extracts: “At the start of the 20th century, the U.S. looked progressive compared with Europe’s empires. The big difference between the U.S. and Europe is that the U.S. kept its 18th […]

While playing with the University of Toronto’s library pages, I did some random searches and came across an article about “Participation in the global knowledge commons” by Leslie Chan and Sely Costa. First of all, this is an example of how digitalizing academic publishing, and making it accessible for free-text searches makes knowledge more available […]