Thinking Out Aloud

This is based on a comment I made here . The big divide between the Sceptical Enlightenment and the Radical Enlightenment is that the forme...

Wikipedia claims that : Contrary to popular conception, there is no evidence of a society or economy that relied primarily on barter.[2] In...

A common comment on the eurozone crisis is that it would be very difficult for any country (say Greece) to leave the eurozone. There is even...

This concludes my review of Michael D. Coe’s Angkor and the Khmer Civilization . The first part of the review was in my previous post . Clas...

Michael D. Coe’s Angkor and the Khmer Civilization is “volume one hundred and nine in the series Ancient Peoples and Places ” (p.4), a numb...

I once asked an Israeli archaeologist why archaeologists (and historical anthropologists) seem to be so influenced by Karl Marx. He replied ...

A variation on the Whig interpretation of history that still has surprising sway is of human religious history as having a “natural” progre...

In an article in the October issue of Quadrant , Paul Monk labels homo sapiens as Apprehensive Pattern-seeking Emotional Story-tellers or...

Economist Arnold Kling recently posted on the issue of "scientific stagnation", and whether we were in a period of it. Now, witho...

This is based on a comment I made here . Alabama has recently enacted a law that makes it illegal for illegal migrants to work to support t...

This is based on a comment I made here . In any discussion of “just price”, one should not blame the Romans, even by implication, for any no...

The people who supported the euro, and particularly UK entry into the euro, were wrong. Not arguably wrong, not partially wrong; just flatly...

October 2011 Dinner - The Australian Adam Smith Club Prof Gary Johns on Aboriginal Self-Determination: The Whiteman’s Dream The Adam Smith ...

As much of the developed world, particularly the US and the eurozone, struggle with prolonged economic stagnation (and looming worse), who o...

This expands significantly on a comment I made here . The Obama Administration's American Jobs Act has a seriously bad idea of the type...

In my previous post , I outlined the apparent underlying strategy of the Gillard Government's Carbon Tax proposal and expressed sceptici...