‘In a letter to his brother Stanislaus, James Joyce referred to himself as “the foolish author of a wise book.”’

Good line!

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'If the reader doesn’t draw from a book the moral it implies, either the reader is an imbecile or the book is false because it lacks exactitude. For the moment a thing is True, it is good.'

Gustave Flaubert

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'The conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity remains one of the great wonders of human history, a contingency so vast and radical that many, not only Christians, have understood it as miraculous. The profundity of this change is registered by the depth of its

Can anyone tell me what's happening with New Zealand's much vaunted so-called 'Wellbeing budgeting' since the change of government over there?

Is it
a) being maintained — at least as a 'badge'
b) being maintained and rebadged
c) being discontinued?

It's five years since I demonstrated simply not only that despite all that malarky we tell ourselves about scaling what works we never have, and in fact never could because of a CATCH 22 at the heart of the system.

The reaction was electrifying. Leaders everywhere, in

Nice pic, and nice piece — about Ross Gittins

By John Quiggin

And Ross was equally generous with me in his contributions to my own bit of fundraising for refugees

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1/ Our latest guest, Nicholas Gruen, speaks on positive feedback in the housing market.

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Listen to 'Economics: is complexity the answer'

From Simplifying Complexity

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1/ Our latest guest, Nicholas Gruen, on how economists leave university with a misguided view of how they'll solve problems...

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1/ Our latest guest, Nicholas Gruen, speaks on how the financial sector leads us into trouble.

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'People aren't trained to solve problems. They're trained to learn curricula!'

I don't know who this guy is, but why aren't more people making as much sense ;)

1/ Our latest guest on #SimplifyingComplexity , Nicholas Gruen, speaks on the problems with neoclassical economics but questions whether complexity economics is actually the solution.

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Nice pic of the Abrahamic religions in Jerusalem — I wonder if it's a real photo or has been manipulated to fit them all into the one shot?

'I have an uneasy feeling that if the computer had been around at the time of Copernicus, nobody would have ever bothered with him, because the computers could have handled the Ptolemaic epicycles with perfect ease.'

Kenneth Boulding, ‘The Economics of Knowledge and the

I have a common password for lots of sites where, if someone figures out what it is, it's not a big deal.

In fact I do vary it depending on certain details of each site, but much of the password remains identical

It would be a nightmare to have different ones for 561 sites.

I really, really want an add-on to Chrome that ingests the full text of articles I browse into memory so that when I remember something I've read but not saved, I can word search it. It could be given some limit in size and just erase the oldest files.

Is there such an ad on?

Very cool

'The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture'

Alasdair McIntyre, Whose Justice, which rationality?

Bit of a LoLBerger

'The general scheme of the human future seemed fairly clear to me then. … I had no premonition that the long peace which had lasted since Waterloo was soon to … end. I did not understand the prophetic warning of my teacher … that there might be a war which would unsettle the