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Niall Ferguson and the Descent of Cash

By anewnadir | Published: 23 January 2010
I didn’t expect to update this blog at all while I was in India, since I’ve been more or less regularly updating the blog I made especially for this trip. However over the past few days I have been at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Given the high-brow nature of most of the events I felt [...]
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does capitalism erode morals?

By anewnadir | Published: 20 April 2009
There’s an interesting interview with Michael Pollan up at the Rumpus Room. Pollan is the author of a few vaguely seminal books about food and western culture. In the interview, he says that [Capitalism is] putting profit first and making money the measure of all things. You know Daniel Bell was a neo-conservative making that case, [...]
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