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The stock market fetish

The most recent turmoil in the stock market caused by Donald Trump’s ill-considered policy to impose tariffs on the entire world, has brought up one legitimate question: what is the correct attitude towards stock market declines and crashes?

a week ago 8 votes
Intelligentsia in power

On Bukharin's critique of the Austrian school and John Bates Clark

a week ago 9 votes
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3 weeks ago 18 votes
Capitalism of finitude: pessimism and bellicosity

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Miles Davis didn’t put out any studio albums from 1973 until the middle of 1981. In explaining the reasons for this lacuna in his recording career, Milesologists can point to a variety of factors in the man’s professional and personal life. But one in particular looms large: the failure of his 1972 album On the […]

10 hours ago 1 votes
6 Terrible Historical Facts About Typhus

Epidemic typhus is one of the oldest diseases known to affect humankind, and despite advances in modern medicine, it continues to be a contemporary concern. Often infiltrating human existence hand in hand with disasters such as war and weather phenomena, typhus has demonstrated a potential to change the course of history and dictate decision-making. […]

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