Archive for July, 2006
Modernism
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16 Jul 2006I was stunned today by the Modernism exhibition at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. I am not qualified to discuss its artistic merits but what struck me most was the difference in perspective between the modernists, particularly in the early years of the movement from 1917 through the 1920s, and today (for a review of […]
- Tags: modernity, science, technology
Me and Spiked
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16 Jul 2006Much of my writing on growth scepticism has appeared on Spiked-online; an independent online publication which describes itself as having the modest ambition of making history as well as reporting it. My recent articles include a contribution to its Enlightening the future 2024 project and a piece on the extradition of the “NatWest three” to […]
- Tags: corruption, film, inequality, review, spiked
Me and Worldwrite
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16 Jul 2006The slogan “Ferraris for all” comes for Worldwrite; an education charity campaigning for real development in the third world. Ceri Dingle, the director of the charity, was evidently asking some of its volunteers what they would really like to have. They said Ferarris. I am sure they did not necessarily mean it literally. No doubt […]
- Tags: development, film, media appearances, speeches, spiked, trade, Worldwrite
Adam Smith as an Enlightenment thinker
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16 Jul 2006My review of a new biography of Adam Smith which puts him into context as a thinker of the eighteenth century Age of Reason. From the 10 July issue of Fund Strategy magazine: Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the first and greatest thinkers of the modern age. Although nowadays he is normally seen as […]
- Tags: book, economics, Fund Strategy, review
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