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Thursday, May 4, 2023

Capitalism unchained

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  K rishnan Nayar makes three key points in his recently published Liberal Capitalist Democracy: The God that Failed . First, he argues that...
Thursday, April 13, 2023

The chronicle of the revolutions foretold?

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  F or almost two decades, Peter Turchin has been involved, with many colleagues and co-authors, in an epochal project: to figure out, using...
Sunday, March 5, 2023

On charisma and greyness under communism

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S everal years ago in a conversation about politics and history,  a friend asked me something about the durability of Tito’s regime in Yug...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Capitalists, the state and globalization

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                 “The tendency to create the world market is directly given in a concept of capital itself. Every limit appears as a barrier...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

The comprador intelligentsia

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I n “Orientalism”, Edward Said spoke of an orientalist as an interpreter of local custom and knowledge to the foreign intellectual. A common...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Statistics as a philosophy and art

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T he statistical work during the first fifteen years of the People's Republic of China can be usefully, if somewhat simplistically, di...
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