Gustav Peebles
@GustavPeebles
Anthropologist @Stockholm_uni, previously at @TheNewSchool. Endlessly intrigued by Quebec.
Great article comparing dominant economics’ to medieval prognosticators. Worth recalling Smith’s endless harping on “men of system”….
So long as Fed fetishism prevails, there will be no Renaissance in economic thinking. Here's hoping that the New Year turns this tide. "Mainstream Economics’ Medieval Inflation Medicine" by James K. Galbraith @ProSyn prosyn.org/4md0uKt
Really great job for anyone who followed, or was part of, our efforts with @EmpireCurrency
So long as Fed fetishism prevails, there will be no Renaissance in economic thinking. Here's hoping that the New Year turns this tide. "Mainstream Economics’ Medieval Inflation Medicine" by James K. Galbraith @ProSyn prosyn.org/4md0uKt
I’m confused. Why not just consult his own Afterword to the 2nd German Edition?
Classic statement on how loans work between Africa and the West. Looted from Africa and then loaned to Africa.
The UK has returned 32 royal artefacts looted from Ghana's Asante Kingdom in the 19th Century. The 150-year old artfacts were returned by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, but on a three-year loan, not on a permanent basis. bbc.in/3Jz7NkN
This article on the Taliban in Kabul is basically Simmel’s “The Metropolis & Mental Life, Revisited (and affirmed)” washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/…
Isn't this the plot to @roblowe's #Unstable on @Netflix? I didn't realize it was a prescient work of utopian fiction, up there with Bellamy's Looking Backward. washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…
We’re in peak-navel-gazing era in our culture when we can have “début” memoirs. It implies and assumes that the audience would happily gobble up a second one.
Stockholm’s busy central bus station’s “tickets and help” desk in the middle of a weekday workday. The machines have definitely taken over.
I'm used to people mistaking Switzerland for Sweden, but I've never run into anyone putting the Baltic Sea smack dab in the middle of the North Atlantic (these islands are off west coast of Sweden). Doesn't give high hopes for the intelligence of AI. #applemapsfail
