It's a really quite nice small city/ big town . . .
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It's a really quite nice small city/ big town . . .
The good part is it‘s really easy to read for West Germanic speakers. Speaking however is a rather different story; still working on that after two and a half decades.
I'll see if I can dig up anything in German.
Unfortunately I have not been able to find anything on ØD not in Danish. So if like me you thought it would be a great career move to learn Danish, the best study out there is Niels Dalgaard, Ved demokratiets grænse (SFAH, 1995).
I first learned about it when translating Pelle Dragsted's Nordic Socialism, which came out last year from Wisconsin. He has an excellent section comparing the two proposals.
I've always suspected that part of the reason for the ambition of these plans was that the Danish and Swedish LOs were able to employ their own economists, relatively free of the influence of the bourgeois goons over at the universities.
So nice to see someone else still interested; you should also check out ØD from Denmark, which actually predated Meidner.
COMING THIS FALL (from Johns Hopkins University Press)👇
Also will mention here that due to the Hontian proportions of the introduction to The Great Debate my editor has informed me that I am no longer allowed to do critical editions.
uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/T/The-...
"An introductory essay of almost Hontian proportions" is by far the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my work. It did take me awhile to figure out what Hontian means" though.
www.intellectualhistory.net/remembering/...
"An introductory essay of almost Hontian proportions" is by far the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my work. It did take me a while to figure what Hontian means though.
www.intellectualhistory.net/remembering/...
Many thanks to Jack Graveney and Nietzsche Studien for this remarkable review. It's all too rare for an ordinary soul to find engagement of this magnitude and depth.
I keep of a list of words Bill don't like:
solidaristic
noncapitalist
trillionaire
precarity
marketized
financialization
Looks like Bluesky didn't recognize any of these either.
When he brought his mistress to the Christian college presidents conference.
The essay builds on @pelledragsted.bsky.social’s recent book Nordic Socialism: The Path Toward a Democratic Economy — a compelling case for extending democracy into the economy. More on the book here:
Andersen’s late tale Auntie Toothache is about how the pages of books have more economic value as wrapping for salted herring than as reading material.
From everything I know about J.D. (I wish I didn't know anything), I think Løkke and Vivian did the right thing, at least for now. Sometimes when you are up against a guy with that punchable of a face it's best to keep your hands in your pockets.
TBC I still made a mess of it all on my own too.
I mean I took 8 years but then again my advisor died and they stuck me with an empty suit.
In the 1982 Heritage lecture, he actually puts a number on it -- 99.5% of currently living human beings owe their lives to . . . the .5%, I guess.
The principle problem for Hayek is the ingratitude of the great mass of ordinary people, we who owe our very existence to them, a kind of existential blackmail, as I am currently calling it.
This gift, and he very much sees it as gift, permitted the peasantry to increases its numbers many times over. Thus the bourgeoisie did create the proletariat, in so far as the individual proletarians would never have existed otherwise.
The basic argument, if it could be called as much, is that early British capitalists developed new means of production that vastly increased productive powers, and then, in an act of unprecedented generosity, freely shared it with the people.
He denies the historical reality of primitive accumulation all over his work. i.e. no capitalist ever took from the poor to make himself wealthy. Probably the most detailed account in is chapter 8 of The Fatal Conceit, on population.
Judy Blume’s The Constitution of Puberty.
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe maybe the most pretentious title ever.
In other places he compares historians of the enclosures to conspiracy nutjobs.
Just got to the part in Hayek where insists none of this ever happened:
"Thus the whole idea that the rich wrested away from the poor what, without such acts of violence would, or at least might, belong to them, is absurd."
It's pretty disingenuous, but another thing that hit on the book tour was an appeal to American pride/ exceptionalism. Like you are the wealthiest country in history, did the moon landing etc. but still you can't take care of your people.
