Thinking Out Aloud

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

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Moral sensibility and modernity

Religions have rituals and doctrines: mechanisms of participation and belief. They also engender moral sensibilities that provide ways of ...

Sunday, December 6, 2015

So, you want to reduce inequality ... (some modest, and some practical, proposals)

Concern over rising inequality has certainly been a significant feature of recent intellectual and political discourse, particularly in the...

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Why gold/currency ratios mattered in the interwar period

This is based on a comment I made here . I have been enjoying Scott Sumner 's history of the Great Depression, The Midas Paradox:...

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Black boxes, the rectification of names and the revival of slavery

The Chinese sage Kong Qiu (551-479 BC) ( Kongzi "Master Kong"), known to the West as Confucius --which is derived from Kong Fuzi...

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