Since I like to try and note things that I at least find noteworthy, here is a broadcast that will last as long as we have computers, inexpensive gasoline and open networks. Happy birthday sweetheart. Love, your Mum and Dad.
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Sad news today of a disgraced economics professor giving his last words to a young student via email. Luckily, it’s an April Fool’s joke. Maybe unluckily the “Academic Choice” theory seems a logical extension of both social construction and public choice theory giving maybe a realistic approach for how to treat economists. Via Naked Capitalism. [...] 
Discovered this interesting interview with Richard Rorty from the Dutch TV series, “Van de Schoonheid en de Troost” on VPRO, first broadcast in June 2000. It’s interesting that they have a portion with him bird watching. Rorty was an avid amateur ornithologist, and spoke very directly about his appreciation for the wild. 
I listened to a BBC podcast the other day and I found it depressing: Local public libraries to be run by volunteers. Because of the UK’s financial constraints there’s an austerity budget that’s been introduced. But the tactic of handing over services to volunteer groups is a very worrying model that I can see being taken up elsewhere. It’s worrying because at least in the UK there doesn’t seem to be any commitment to ensure success in the transfer. 
I listened to a recent podcast from the BBC’s Radio 4 Analysis program on the ubiquitous and insidious growth of credit debt in our world: Radical Economics: escaping credit serfdom. Interesting that debt has become a matter of everydayness when so many of our ancestors worked to free themselves from unhealthy obligation. |
 
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