RE ENLIGHTENMENT AND EDUCATION

See David Kaiser's current post.......
I have been reading Wuthnow's Communities Of Discourse,
instigated by a reference in Collins. Great stuff.
See Collins' relatively early work, The Credential Society. There are some useful references in both to other works in the history of  ' higher education '.

surprise Black Sea manouevres

the problem for the few so called Keynesians left

Faber Marc,

money not flowing into what they are trying to help, so too speak...

faux economies to some extent, now.

term search re the tooth fairy

laissez fairy

this is also popular somehow rather more recherche

http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2973239501462830480#editor/target=post;postID=4147236395245613308

someone likes this a reprise of the laissez fairy etc

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2011/03/re-big-short-john-gutfreund-salomon-ceo.html

THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS BBC NEWS

Buddhists versus Muslims. A perennial rivalry heating up.

They just need a little more freer trade,

and of course a little less government regulation of any kind,

to flourish together,

over there,

 in the subcontinent.

re Collins

here is a blast from the past on his blog. I have read only excerpts:

http://sociological-eye.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=4

SEE David Kaiser's current topic

Re meritocracy.

term search

Many even now think this has been a meritocracy here. They need to think instead of blindly believing this nonsense.

term search: meritocracy

mercantilism

What ruralized, embattled fragmented areas will eventually resort to, again.

Largely because they did not resort to it ab initio laissez faire.

RE THOMAS L FRIEDMAN TODAY NYT

Great point,  Western hobbyism. The dispatch of a vassal.......

The solution for the modern state of Israel needs to be,
again, what it always was, in the biblical age,

re vassal ization by a Muslim state, at best.

A GREAT BLAST FROM THE RECENT PAST

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2012/08/i-keep-meaning-to-talk-about-so-called.html

CARTOON BLAST FROM THE PAST

these maverick rodeo ones were a cute genre back then:

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/08/huan-trading-places-mise-en-scene-hog.html

UK WADING INTO SYRIAN WAR

Sending vehicles to the opposition, the slender wedge.

re nyt as fears recede

What a Pollyanna dream world these investor folks are in.
 'Sophisticated market participants '.

BBC RE CRISIS OF GLOBAL TRADE INVESTMENT LIBERAL HOUSE OF CARDS

Christopher Hughes re China Japan:

"We are seeing the coincidence of two regimes in China and Japan which are facing crises of legitimacy and a temptation to turn to issues of nationalism to compensate."

I WOULD HAVE PUT IT RATHER DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT COMES TO THE SAME THING, in a way.

One could meaningfully say this re almost all liberal market globalized Western democracies too.

http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2013/02/re-japan-china-and-us.html