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Capitalism today is in chains, allowed to perform many social functions, but held back from realizing its full potential.
The Making of Modern Corporate Finance: A History of the Ideas and How They Help Build the Wealth of Nations (quotes below), by Donald Chew, persuaded me that for-profit-firm capitalism has varied quite a lot over space and time, and that the U.S.
To those who see just how much better is a civilized life, one of the most terrifying things one can learn from history is that pretty much all past civilizations fell.
Standard decision theory says that all decisions combine two key factors: opinions on values, and beliefs about facts.
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Although it’s certainly more plausible than hypotheses like ancient aliens or lizard people, the idea that slaves built the Egyptian pyramids is no more true. It derives from creative readings of Old Testament stories and technicolor Cecil B. Demille spectacles, and was a classic whataboutism used by slavery apologists. The notion has “plagued Egyptian scholars […]
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the space agencies of the United States and Russia began working together like never before. The culmination of the new partnership was the Shuttle-Mir program, a mission that took place over several years and saw American astronauts working together on the Mir space station alongside their Russian counterparts. The […]
These lively prints are from the series Libellus Novus Elementorum Latinorum by Polish goldsmith Jan Christian Bierpfaff (1600-ca.1690) and engraved by Jeremias Falck (1610–1677). These hugely imaginative, abstract and fluid prints come to life on the page. Bierpfaff worked as an apprentice at the Mackensen family of metalworkers in Kracow, a group, who, according … Continue reading "Bierpfaff’s Alphabet of Organic Type (c. 1650)" The post Bierpfaff’s Alphabet of Organic Type (c. 1650) appeared first on Flashbak.
