I could not read his History Of Philosophy.
I cannot put The West And The Rest down.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
Friday, May 29, 2015
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
MORE FREE TRADE PLEASE
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2014/04/economics-krugman-piketty-samuelson.html
DREAMLAND ON POLITICAL ECONOMY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
http://sites.dartmouth.edu/wwohlforth/files/2013/04/GilpinianRealism1.pdf
PIKETTY CALLS FOR A RETURN TO POLITICAL ECONOMY
Rodrik is apparently America's answer.
The Globalization Paradox
He is a globalist, and claims only to want a sane globalization, rather than continued hyper globalization.
In other words, he wants more political globalization, just as Piketty does, so that these new super national, right or left thinking global organizations can then grapple effectively with the unsavory divergence, convergence, environmental, and other unpleasant aspects of economic hyper globalization.
One good thing, he is a tattler on other economists.
The Globalization Paradox
He is a globalist, and claims only to want a sane globalization, rather than continued hyper globalization.
In other words, he wants more political globalization, just as Piketty does, so that these new super national, right or left thinking global organizations can then grapple effectively with the unsavory divergence, convergence, environmental, and other unpleasant aspects of economic hyper globalization.
One good thing, he is a tattler on other economists.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
RE STEINGART CONVERGENCE
He actually comes out favoring global labor cost convergence, p 246.
I doubt whether he thought through what that number might turn out to be, either in the near term or the longer.
I doubt whether he thought through what that number might turn out to be, either in the near term or the longer.
Monday, May 25, 2015
RE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM
I am going to do several posts on this topic, a desperately needed discussion.
RE RANDALL COLLINS FAME ADVENTURERS JOURNALISTS RIDENHOUR MOVIE STARS POLITICIANS KINGS
See his latest post re T E Lawrence.
Not a good project in my judgement, having Lawrence dismembering the Ottoman Empire.
Compare Collins' remarks, re how someone becomes famous, with Kaiser's remarks re Hersh, and about journalists, and others, movie stars, politicians, etc., who become famous, based on the work often of, brave if foolish, individuals, whistleblowers, or fools, and/ or of the regular work of countless others, supporting people such as Lawrence.
He is good at contrasting the facts, such as they are known to him, from the motion picture.
Not a good project in my judgement, having Lawrence dismembering the Ottoman Empire.
Compare Collins' remarks, re how someone becomes famous, with Kaiser's remarks re Hersh, and about journalists, and others, movie stars, politicians, etc., who become famous, based on the work often of, brave if foolish, individuals, whistleblowers, or fools, and/ or of the regular work of countless others, supporting people such as Lawrence.
He is good at contrasting the facts, such as they are known to him, from the motion picture.
CLASSIC CARTOON
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2010/11/re-cartoon-mise-en-scene-uncle-sam-dog.html
Sunday, May 24, 2015
IT WAS ALWAYS MAINLY ABOUT MAKING MONEY
http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/spring03/journalism.cfm
Cf DK's post on Hersh,
"...That is the legacy of the new tradition of investigative reporting as an end in itself, not designed to uncover a specific abuse or serve the greater good...." DK
Great stuff.
(Lorch) Newspaper Editor's retort to assembled Scholars:
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
Terms search Lorch, Drew Pearson, Fallacy, Ridenhour
Cf DK's post on Hersh,
"...That is the legacy of the new tradition of investigative reporting as an end in itself, not designed to uncover a specific abuse or serve the greater good...." DK
Great stuff.
(Lorch) Newspaper Editor's retort to assembled Scholars:
"Don't you know what the newspaper business is all about, you bloody fool...For the past ten minutes you've been trying to make me out as some kind of hideous ogre devoid of any shred of social consciousness.
"You act as though you think the job of a newspaper is to be an educational institution for the masses.
"Education is your job, not mine.
"I run a business. That business is to make money. My stock in trade is something called 'news'. It isn't really news all the time-- it's entertainment in the guise of news quite often.... I am not going to print educational stuff that'll put me in the poor house."
Terms search Lorch, Drew Pearson, Fallacy, Ridenhour
RE GOLD STANDARD
Let's set this matter straight for a moment, here, before forging ahead.
The gold standard is not really, necessarily, a so called
' gold standard '.
The reason for this is that it has always been susceptible, for many centuries, to fractional reserve banking practices, even under a so called gold standard.
Fractional gold reserves are like not having a gold standard in the first place.
The gold standard is not really, necessarily, a so called
' gold standard '.
The reason for this is that it has always been susceptible, for many centuries, to fractional reserve banking practices, even under a so called gold standard.
Fractional gold reserves are like not having a gold standard in the first place.
Saturday, May 23, 2015
RE PIKETTY GILLIGAN AND THE FED
He seems to think that the FED is some kind of a government organization.
He is worried, in passing, that going off the gold standard requires close governmental regulation...........banks can then just print money..........endlessly.......
The 12 member banks are not, however, government banks, they are private corporations.
Andy Jackson, long before the likes of Andy Brigham, repudiated a national bank.
I can cite the Piketty pages if need be. pgs 548, 557
How big do you want your global property rights, a whole lot bigger than your government?
You got your wish.
Remember Thurston's remarks at the AEDP in Boca in 2006, Bonita Springs 2008, I believe. (Not Thurston Howell Romney, Boca in 2012, but similar.....)
"Who do you think they will bail out, you or me?"
We all know what the answer has been.
Some Like It Yacht.
How did they copy that, so quickly, from me?
He is worried, in passing, that going off the gold standard requires close governmental regulation...........banks can then just print money..........endlessly.......
The 12 member banks are not, however, government banks, they are private corporations.
Andy Jackson, long before the likes of Andy Brigham, repudiated a national bank.
I can cite the Piketty pages if need be. pgs 548, 557
How big do you want your global property rights, a whole lot bigger than your government?
You got your wish.
Remember Thurston's remarks at the AEDP in Boca in 2006, Bonita Springs 2008, I believe. (Not Thurston Howell Romney, Boca in 2012, but similar.....)
"Who do you think they will bail out, you or me?"
We all know what the answer has been.
Some Like It Yacht.
How did they copy that, so quickly, from me?
RE CIVIL LIBERTARIAN RELIGIOUS RIGHT PROPERTY RIGHTS
Andrew Brigham is, perhaps, the best archetype of this concatenation of advocacy ideas in American legal religious and political thought.
They are not my ideas, but what he says and does are worth looking at.
They are not my ideas, but what he says and does are worth looking at.
WHAT HUNTINGTON HAD REFERRED TO
more or less, as Davos attendees, in The Clash, and what Faux later called The Party Of Davos, one can call players, of one type or another, in what I call The Globalization Game.
All the rest really, perhaps, are conceived, by some or all of them, more or less, as pawns.
One can really look back to the 60s and 70s to see the handwriting on the wall. Sovereignty At Bay, etc.
All the rest really, perhaps, are conceived, by some or all of them, more or less, as pawns.
One can really look back to the 60s and 70s to see the handwriting on the wall. Sovereignty At Bay, etc.
THE PRESIDENCY CONGRESS AND WEAK FEDERALISM THE PRESIDENTIAL ABERRATION
Structurally, the system has always had major problems leading to drift on any big issues.
The Presidency has been a failed institution because it has devolved, originally by constitutional mandate, to focus on trade and commerce, and on diplomacy. It is not supposed to declare war, but in practice has evolved in the direction of fighting wars not declared.
The Middle East, and Asia, represent the two aspects of the Presidential Aberration, too much war in one, and too much trade in the other.
It has been a bipartisan problem.
The Congress was designed to drift around and never to do very much. It usually accomplishes that.
The Supreme Court was never supposed to do very much, and it normally accomplishes that.
The Presidency was designed to do much the same. Good examples of the trade prong of the Presidential Aberration are Prestowitz' Trading Places, and the article in Foreign Affairs "Trading American Interests".
A quite good example of the Presidential trade prong Aberration is the current Pacific trade deal.
NAFTA and WTO were great examples under Clinton.
The Presidency has been a failed institution because it has devolved, originally by constitutional mandate, to focus on trade and commerce, and on diplomacy. It is not supposed to declare war, but in practice has evolved in the direction of fighting wars not declared.
The Middle East, and Asia, represent the two aspects of the Presidential Aberration, too much war in one, and too much trade in the other.
It has been a bipartisan problem.
The Congress was designed to drift around and never to do very much. It usually accomplishes that.
The Supreme Court was never supposed to do very much, and it normally accomplishes that.
The Presidency was designed to do much the same. Good examples of the trade prong of the Presidential Aberration are Prestowitz' Trading Places, and the article in Foreign Affairs "Trading American Interests".
A quite good example of the Presidential trade prong Aberration is the current Pacific trade deal.
NAFTA and WTO were great examples under Clinton.
Friday, May 22, 2015
THE GLOBALIZATION BALL GAME
The other key reference point for these suggested images is something that appears in Huntington's The Clash, figure 9.1.
Although this image is two dimensional it clearly implies, to me, at least, three or more dimensions, and contending gobbling globes might be ranged around some three dimensional globular representation of figure 9.1, to suggest what I have described so far.
It can suggest both geography, and relative magnitude, and relative civilizational associations and rivalries at once.
I know this a tall order for a graphic, but someone has probably already done it.
It is really, behind the scenes, a game of hard ball, with 'balls to the wall', and 'who's got who by the balls', no doubt, as common, literal and figurative, epithets, for the playing of the game, in the so called real world, not that 'globalization game' described here.
Although this image is two dimensional it clearly implies, to me, at least, three or more dimensions, and contending gobbling globes might be ranged around some three dimensional globular representation of figure 9.1, to suggest what I have described so far.
It can suggest both geography, and relative magnitude, and relative civilizational associations and rivalries at once.
I know this a tall order for a graphic, but someone has probably already done it.
It is really, behind the scenes, a game of hard ball, with 'balls to the wall', and 'who's got who by the balls', no doubt, as common, literal and figurative, epithets, for the playing of the game, in the so called real world, not that 'globalization game' described here.
THE GLOBALIZATION GAME
Another aspect of the images I am suggesting is that they need to be enclosed within a finite say Euclidean space, a rather large but not flattened room, say a large cube, with transparent walls.
There needs to be nothing flat about them, or the space.
The space within which these globes contend for dominance should probably itself be globular.
Such a graphic can give particular import to trade concepts like hollowing out, offshoring, attacker trade, etc.
One can see the victim nations or civilizations being progressively eaten out by attacker states and civilizations.
When Secretary Clinton referred to lack of leverage, maybe it was this kind of thing, in Asia, to which she referred.
There needs to be nothing flat about them, or the space.
The space within which these globes contend for dominance should probably itself be globular.
Such a graphic can give particular import to trade concepts like hollowing out, offshoring, attacker trade, etc.
One can see the victim nations or civilizations being progressively eaten out by attacker states and civilizations.
When Secretary Clinton referred to lack of leverage, maybe it was this kind of thing, in Asia, to which she referred.
THE GLOBALIZATION GAME
We will describe a so called game of globalization. It is not a board game, but exists rather in five dimensions.
You can think of it as a sort of language game, also, in a Wittgensteinian sense, but it is not quite that kind of thing really, either.
There are many players, big and small. They are nations as well as civilizations.
They try to expand internally and also, as part of this process of internal expansion, they try to consume their intra civilizational and extra civilizational neighbors and others more remote, or to ward them off from consuming them, or more usually both.
We can call it a ball game, or globe ball game, with each player represented as a ball or globe, trying to intrude itself physically into certain other balls or globes around it, either within its civilization, or into other ones, or both.
The balls or globes thus interpenetrate, and are best represented as translucent globes, the aggressor globes penetrating into the interior of the victims, the internal dimensions of each visible based on their translucence, similarly to how Steingart describes the actions of attacker states and their victims.
Steingart has a series of GDP illustrations in The War For Wealth. I especially like starting with his 2005 illustration, after p 201, to suggest a starting place for this composite image or images I am describing. It is only a mere starting place re relative magnitudes.
Steingart does entitle his work "...why the flat world is cracked", but his images of a three four or five D image for it are absent, and he seems content with a cracked flat world image.
Of course his globes or balls are not translucent, and do not describe the interrelationships I am describing, so that they would have to be drastically modified, by very different illustrations, to achieve the kinds of relationships my conceptions invoke.
They could also be schematized as interpenetrating molecules, at either end of Huntington's 9.1 figure. Show a globule of globes merging at ends of Huntington's 9.1 in 3 D.
You can think of it as a sort of language game, also, in a Wittgensteinian sense, but it is not quite that kind of thing really, either.
There are many players, big and small. They are nations as well as civilizations.
They try to expand internally and also, as part of this process of internal expansion, they try to consume their intra civilizational and extra civilizational neighbors and others more remote, or to ward them off from consuming them, or more usually both.
We can call it a ball game, or globe ball game, with each player represented as a ball or globe, trying to intrude itself physically into certain other balls or globes around it, either within its civilization, or into other ones, or both.
The balls or globes thus interpenetrate, and are best represented as translucent globes, the aggressor globes penetrating into the interior of the victims, the internal dimensions of each visible based on their translucence, similarly to how Steingart describes the actions of attacker states and their victims.
Steingart has a series of GDP illustrations in The War For Wealth. I especially like starting with his 2005 illustration, after p 201, to suggest a starting place for this composite image or images I am describing. It is only a mere starting place re relative magnitudes.
Steingart does entitle his work "...why the flat world is cracked", but his images of a three four or five D image for it are absent, and he seems content with a cracked flat world image.
Of course his globes or balls are not translucent, and do not describe the interrelationships I am describing, so that they would have to be drastically modified, by very different illustrations, to achieve the kinds of relationships my conceptions invoke.
They could also be schematized as interpenetrating molecules, at either end of Huntington's 9.1 figure. Show a globule of globes merging at ends of Huntington's 9.1 in 3 D.
RE GLOBALIZATION IMAGES AND IDEAS QUIGLEY HUNTINGTON STEINGART FRIEDMAN
This was an image I created to suggest a three or more dimensional globalization, and the interpenetration of nations and civilizations into eachother, to suggest an alternative to the so called flat world of Thomas Friedman and others.
In the next post I want to suggest some further images, and ideas along this path.
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