Lars P. Syll

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.[embedded content] A great scholar has passed away. R.I.P.

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I dessa tider — när ljudrummet dränks i den kommersiella radions pubertalflams — har man nästan gett upp. Men det finns ljus i mörkret. I programmet Text och musik med Eric Schüldt — som sänds på söndagsförmiddagarna i P2 mellan klockan 11 och 12 — kan man lyssna på seriös musik och en programledare som verkligen har något att säga och inte bara låter foderluckan glappa. Att få höra någon med intelligens och känsla tala om saker som vi alla går och bär på djupt inne i våra...

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Monnaie d’hier, monnaie de demain Enfin, pour ce qui est de la dangereuse privatisation de la monnaie qui adviendrait avec les cryptomonnaies, demandons-nous si la monnaie légale est le bien public qu’elle prétend être. C’est à son accaparement par le secteur bancaire et financier qu’entendent répondre des innovations financières comme les cryptomonnaies ou les monnaies complémentaires, aussi différents soient leurs projets sous-jacents. Alors, plutôt que...

Does it take a theory to beat a theory? If the substantive theories and methods you use, given their ontological presuppositions, are appropriate to the nature of those aspects of social reality you are addressing, then fine. The only methodological ‘dictum’ I support is tailor methods to the nature of the phenomena you are addressing. Certainly, I would offer no ontological critique. Specifically, if the five sets of properties you list do characterise the...

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Few volumes in contemporary economics have been more lauded, and have summarised a zeitgeist, as much as Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s Poor Economics … The implicit premise of the book is that interventions that work in one place can be expected to work in another. This presumes not only that the results of such “micro” interventions are substantially independent of the “macro” context, but also that a focus on such interventions, as opposed to those which reshape that...

.[embedded content] The first 30 minutes gives you an interesting critical discussion on how the left should tackle wokism and identity political issues (when the interview then turns to the corona pandemic, Wagenknecht’s brain is obviously on vaccation and she just presents a standard mumbo jumbo anti-vaxx argumentation).