When giving courses in the philosophy of science yours truly has often had David Papineau’s book Philosophical Devices (OUP 2012) on the reading list. Overall it is a good introduction to many of the instruments used when performing methodological and science theoretical analyses of economic and other social sciences issues. Unfortunately, the book has also fallen prey to the randomization hype that scourges sciences nowadays.... Lars P. Syll’s BlogRandomization — a philosophical device...
Read More »Bill Mitchell – The lame progressive obsession with meaningless aggregates
Maybe the British Labour Party could get Nancy Pelosi to do some stupid tweets for them as well. She is an expert at it – see my blog – When neoliberals masquerade as progressives. She thinks it is smart progressive politics to post tweets criticising her political opponents for a policy that “explodes the deficit … dumping … debt on every man, woman & child in America”. A fallacious argument. But moreover, a very stupid strategic argument because it fails to educate the public on what...
Read More »WSW – Google’s Eric Schmidt admits political censorship of search results
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, confirmed this weekend that the world’s largest Internet company is, in close coordination with the state, manipulating search results to censor sites critical of the US government. Responding to a question about the “manipulation of information” on the Internet during an appearance at the Halifax International Security Forum, Schmidt announced that Google is working on algorithms that will “de-rank” Russian-based...
Read More »Michael Hudson’s “TED TALK” on Economics
Contains an excellent video of Micheal Hudson talking about his book, J is for Junk Economics, and he emphasis here how Trump was the lesser evil than Hilary. That made me laugh because when I tell my liberal friends this they look horrified. The UK Guardian recently run an article by Zoe Williams titled, Why does nobody mention that Hillary Clinton is perfectly nice? But the Guardian closed CiF after only 90 comments, probably because of the type of comments it was getting, so I didn't get...
Read More »Pepe Escobar — How Turkey, Iran, Russia and India are playing the New Silk Roads
Big doings underway you won't read about in Western corporate media. The only way the Global North can stop this surge of the Global South now is through hybrid warfare.Asia TimesHow Turkey, Iran, Russia and India are playing the New Silk Roads Pepe Escobar
Read More »Moon of Alabama — Google Does Evil
Why you should be using DuckDuckGo.Moon of Alabama Google Does Evilb
Read More »Thorsten Beck and Hans‐Helmut Kotz — New eBook: Ordoliberalism: A German oddity?
Free is good. German economics and, as a result, German economic policymaking, appear to be a land apart. Critics have even suggested that German policymakers and academics live in a “parallel intellectual universe”. The conflict, for example, with US economic policy pragmatism is a hardy perennial in international debates – dating back long before the most recent struggles in the G20 context. Similarly, the Eurozone crisis has opened fault lines between German economists and policymakers...
Read More »RT – Trump, Putin have ‘great call’ that lasts 1.5 hrs
See how friendly Putin and Trump are. It must terrify the US Military-Industrial complex, the Neocons, and the neoliberals. [embedded content]
Read More »Michael Roberts — Budget and Brexit
Britain has been a rentier economy extraordinaire, with the highest dependence on the financial sector of all major economies. And the biggest fall in productivity growth has been in this sector since 2007. Michael Roberts BlogBudget and BrexitMichael Roberts
Read More »Alexander Mercouris — The Trump – Putin call: summary and analysis
Everything you might want to know about the phone "summit" without actually listening in. Positive overall. The Trump-Putin relationship seems to be developing along the lines of the Trump-Xi relationship. Basically good relations. The DuranThe Trump – Putin call: summary and analysis Alexander Mercouris
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