Thinking Out Aloud

Postings on books (mainly non-fiction), a few films and matters of interest by Lorenzo from Oz (aka Downunder)

Saturday, August 8, 2015

The hollow states of Islam

Reading Norman Davies's Vanished Kingdoms , it struck me how much Islamic states--across most of the history of Islam--resembled the ...

Sunday, August 2, 2015

The three ages of trade and the distorting retro-perspective of the modern

The history of long distance trade can be broadly divided into three periods: the globalisation or mass trade period (from the 1820s onwar...

Friday, July 17, 2015

Ethos and the welfare state.

The OECD Secretariat released recently (November 2014) a revealing summary (pdf) of public social expenditure by OECD countries . The dat...

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

The Rotten Heart of Europe

Bernard Connolly 's The Rotten Heart of Europe: Dirty War for Money is a jeremiad against European monetary union first publ...

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